Terms and Conditions Apply #01, 2017

Terms and Conditions Apply was a temporary installation in the well of the Walled Garden at Norton Priory Museum and Gardens. A traditionally coopered oak bucket was adapted with a brass coin slot and positioned at the top of the site’s five-metre-deep well. The bucket was connected via a tube to a Tibetan singing bowl placed at the bottom of the well.

The coin slot carried the instruction “One Coin Per Wish, Terms and Conditions Apply”, alongside a link to a website listing eleven conditions governing the act of wishing at the well. After inserting a coin, visitors heard the resonant sound of the singing bowl rising from below—an ambiguous signal that their wish may, or may not, have been granted.

The work was developed as part of Meeting Point2, a year-long programme led by Arts&Heritage, pairing artists with museums across the North of England to create new site-responsive artworks.

Materials: Oak, steel, brass, plastic tubing, stainless funnel, singing bowl