Dinas Tunnel – the former branch-line railway tunnel between Tregarth and Bethesda, known informally as Tynal Tywyll (dark tunnel).
4 April 2020
Dinas Tunnel, Lon Las Ogwen, Tregarth
SH 60818 68185; 53.19247°N, 4.08473°W
Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool
25 April 2019
Mount Pleasant, Liverpool
SJ 35658 90129; 53.40402°N, 2.96926°W
Metropolitan Cathedral I;
Metropolitan Cathedral II;
Metropolitan Cathedral III;
Metropolitan Cathedral IV;
The head of Leda (c 1505-08). Black chalk, pen and ink.
25 April 2019
Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool
SJ 34995 90768; 53.40969°N, 2.97936°W
In February 2019, to mark the 500th anniversary of his death, 144 of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings from the Royal Collection went on display in 12 concurrent exhibitions across the UK, with each venue hosting 12 separate works.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
25 April 2019
Mathew Street, Liverpool
SJ 34494 90409; 53.40640°N, 2.98682°W
Kazie the Gorilla, Betws-y-coed
16 September 2018
Alpine Coffee Shop, Betws-y-coed
SH 79515 56573; 53.09271°N, 3.80066°W
In the rain
19 August 2018
Chambers Street, Edinburgh
NT 25792 73322; 55.94716°N, 3.18980°W
Buddha, National Museum of Scotland
19 August 2018
Chambers Street, Edinburgh
NT 25792 73322; 55.94716°N, 3.18980°W
Penrhyn Castle
4 August 2018
Penrhyn Castle, Llandegai, Bangor
SH 60219 71962; 53.22624°N, 4.09534°W
Harrison’s Garden, Penrhyn Castle
4 August 2018
Penrhyn Castle, Llandegai, Bangor
SH 60219 71962; 53.22624°N, 4.09534°W
Harrison’s Garden by Bristol-based installation artist Luke Jerram (b 1974) is an “imagined landscape and garden of clocks”. The ensemble of over 2,000 clocks, many of which were donated by the public, is currently (16 June – 4 November 2018) on display on the derelict third floor of Penrhyn Castle‘s keep as part of its tour of National Trust properties.
The inspiration for the installation was the clockmaker John Harrison (1693 – 1776) who spent much of his life developing a series of marine chronometers in the pursuit of the Longitude Prize. Although the prize was ultimately never awarded, Harrison’s contributions led to major improvements in safety at sea. His timepieces provided a reliable means of keeping a reference time to which the local time, as determined by astronomical observations, could be compared in order to establish a vessel’s position east or west of the Greenwich meridian.
Trwyn Du Lighthouse
28 May 2018
Penmon Point, Anglesey
SH 64095 81397; 53.31200°N, 4.04136°W
One of the four limestone lions, by sculptor John Thomas, guarding the bridge at rail level
20 May 2018
Britannia Bridge
SH 54165 70870; 53.21480°N, 4.18546°W
13 May 2018
Bethesda, Gwynedd
Anfield Cemetery
16 February 2018
Walton Lane, Liverpool
SJ 36168 93889; 53.43788°N, 2.96235°W
Covering an area of 57 hectares, Anfield Cemetery was designed by landscape architect Edward Kemp (1817-1891) and opened in 1863. Anfield was the second municipal cemetery to be opened by Liverpool Corporation outside of the city centre, where the existing burial grounds had become overcrowded.
Church Island
4 February 2018
Menai Bridge, Anglesey
SH 55181 71768; 53.22315°N, 4.17067°W
M-SParc’s flagship building, still under construction and the first of eight buildings planned for the site
14 January 2018
Gaerwen, Anglesey
SH 49110 72048; 53.22397°N, 4.26166°W
Plans for the 7.8-hectare Menai Science Parc (M-SParc) were submitted in December 2014 with Anglesey Council granting outline permission in May 2015. The Welsh Government provided £10 million of funding with a further £10 million grant from the EU’s European Regional Development Funding allowing the first phase of the development to proceed. Construction started in 2016.
The flagship building, one of a planned total of eight on the park, was designed by Newcastle-based architects FaulknerBrowns and will provide 5,000 square metres of office, laboratory and workshop space to a number of business tenants. It is planned to open in April 2018.
The M-SParc company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bangor University.
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
24 August 2017
Frankwell, Shrewsbury
SJ 48906 12832; 52.71071°N, 2.75772°W
Theatre Severn was designed by architects Austin-Smith:Lord and built by Wilmot Dixon. Construction began in November 2006 and the theatre was officially opened in March 2009.
Mostyn
19 August 2017
Vaughan Street, Llandudno
SH 78537 82048; 53.321378°N, 3.824968°W
Marchlyn Mawr
30 July 2017
Marchlyn Mawr reservoir, Glyderau
SH 61375 62022; 53.13725°N, 4.07372°W
Marchlyn Bach
30 July 2017
Marchlyn Bach reservoir, Glyderau
SH 60650 62692; 53.14308°N, 4.08484°W
Slate or State in the Grand Hall, Penrhyn Castle
2 July 2017
Penrhyn Castle, Llandegai, Bangor
SH 60219 71962; 53.22624°N, 4.09534°W
The installation, entitled Slate or State, is on display in the Grand Hall of Penrhyn Castle from 1 July until 5 November 2017.
“This sculpture was developed as part of a year-long residency by artists Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich. It is a symbolic object; its form is drawn from Victorian paintings and sketches of Penrhyn Quarry, the quarry once owned by Lord Penrhyn.
“The choice of material for the sculpture draws inspiration from the history of protest, and large-scale inflatables that since the 1920s have taken to the streets in collective actions that have called for a fairer society.
“Walker and Bromwich are known internationally for their large-scale participatory events and exhibitions that invite audiences to imagine better worlds. Their residency at Penrhyn Castle was the final act of a three-year collaboration between Arts Council Wales and the National Trust, and their brief was to “interrogate the castle’s controversial history, the stories surrounding it and its relationship with local communities”.
“The focus of the work is the Great Strike of 1900-03, a bid by the men of Penrhyn Quarry to improve their working conditions.
“Walker and Bromwich have worked with individuals, schools and community groups in the quarry town of Bethesda to develop this sculptural work. This sculpture was the focal point of a symbolic event that paid tribute to the local community, which staged the longest strike in British industrial history.
“On 1 July 2017 the Penrhyn Choir processed this sculpture from Bethesda into the Grand Hall. During this performance the original demands of the Great Strike, combined with demands of today, were sung by the choir: colliding in time two points in history where working conditions have been at the forefront of social change.”
– Sara Roberts, Curator
Penrhyn Castle;
Great Strike;
Penrhyn Quarry;
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