LONDON.- A colourful bungalow by British artist Richard Woods appeared yesterday at White City Place as part of Kensington + Chelsea Art Weekend (KCAW19) Public Art trail at the end of June.

KCAW19 is back for its second year, twice the size and with a very cool punk inspired rebrand, the weekend will turn the borough into one cultural and artistic museum-turned-walk-through-playground.

“I’m very enthusiastic about showing the house on the White City plot as the scale and contemporary feel of the office buildings around it will make the small house appear even smaller and more traditional in style.” – Richard Woods.

Holiday Home White City is part of a series of identical sculpture houses called Holiday Homes by artist Richard Woods, so-called because they are temporary and like to appear at various locations, one such location was in the middle of a harbour for Folkestone Triennial.

Woods hopes to take the Holiday Home series travelling around the world. His ambition he says is to “allow the sculptures to temporarily sit in deserts and jungles, dense urban streets and quiet country lanes and interior as well as exterior spaces.’’

With hundreds of events scheduled for the Art Weekend, for ease of navigation, KCAW team have arranged the Royal Borough into eight Zones: North Kensington; Notting Hill + Holland Park; Kensington Church St; High St Kensington; South Kensington + The Great Exhibition Road Festival; Sloane Sq + King’s Rd; Old Chelsea + Worlds End; White City + Olympia. Every Zone in the borough has a wonderful array of events happening as part of the Lates, including the Alison Jackson Photography Awards at the Saatchi Gallery in Sloane Square. In addition, Parer Studio will debut the installation LOST in Sloane Sq. The Alice in Wonderland-like installation will consist of giant botanical treasures now lost and forgotten in full colour, illuminated in light. The installation represents extinct and endangered species of plants from seven different continents, using vibrant colourways powered by light to emphasise the beauty that can be and is lost displayed from 27 June to 4 July.

Each sculpture is exactly the same size but decorated in bold vibrant colours with a playful cartoonish simplicity. The idea behind the series is to install the identical structures in different locations which then interact with their surrounding environment. Scale and colour are very important and although his sculptures are simple they do not shy away from the complex issues of housing, second homes, gentrification and immigration but instead cleverly manage to navigate the dialogue in a fun and accessible way.

“Each location is affected in a different way by the introduction of the house sculpture. An idealised rural location will be affected in a different way by the introduction of the house than say a dense urban city street.”

Woods hopes to take the Holiday Home series travelling around the world. His ambition he says is to “allow the sculptures to temporarily sit in deserts and jungles, dense urban streets and quiet country lanes and interior as well as exterior spaces.’’