Caitlin Easterby’s Spire was commissioned to mark the change in identity of the former Holy Trinity Church, built as a direct response to the building’s atmospheric interior. Whilst Spire was designed to acknowledge the building’s history, as a church and architectural landmark, it also provided a symbolic focus for a period of transition, drawing attention to and encouraging participation in the new activities introduced by Fabrica.

Spire was a temporary, suspended structure built from scrap wood that had been worked with chalk, fire, oils and pigment that was surrounded by beach pebbles. Caitlin worked in Stanmer Park, Brighton for six weeks over the winter preceding the exhibition, stripping the wood and working into it with a range of materials before moving to Fabrica in mid-March of 1996 to assemble the structure.