Wroughton Stones

In 2022, Mooch was shortlisted by Stonewater Housing Association to create a sculptural focal point as part of their Langton Park development in Wiltshire. The new neighborhood was very close to the Science Museum Group’s National Collections Centre, housing all their objects brought from their old archive in London.

Mooch researched the NCC artifacts, to connect the new homes to their captivating neighbour. One of the objects in the NCC collection, is a famous aircraft used by The Rolling Stones when they were on tour in 1973. The Lock heed Constellation aircraft was considered one of the most elegant aircraft ever to be designed. Part of that appeal was the graceful, triple tail-unit of the “Connie”. This feature was extracted by Mooch to create a sensual, sculptural triptych, to form a conversational piece in the Langton Park Estate.

The beautiful triple tail-unit was the “accidentally sculptural” moment that had been hoped for on the Mooch tour of the Wroughton Museum. This serendipitous encounter linked the aviation story of Wroughton, a fantastic slice of British cultural history and a “Stones” connection that gives the new development’s residents their own, contemporary response to the nearby, Avebury Stones, ancient stone circle in Marlborough, Wiltshire. 

Mooch was very grateful to Stonewater for the shortlisting and the funding that came with it, in order to seriously research this multi-layered, iconic sculptural proposal.