Tag Archives: Sculpture

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Buddha

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Date: 13 January 2024

Location: York University, 53.9476711,-1.0520271

Information This 19th-century bronze statue of the Buddha is located behind the Berrick Saul Building in the University of York campus. It was donated to the university in 1983 by Mrs Elizabeth Cooper from the collection of her father John Bowes Morrell (1873–1963). Morrell was a historian and writer who served twice as Lord Mayor of York and was a key figure in the campaign to establish a university in the city. The statue had previously been located in the garden of Morrell’s Victorian mansion, Burton Croft, which later became a nursing home and was ultimately demolished by developers Barratt in 2004.

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Daniel Arsham

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Date:
24 August 2023

Location:
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
53.6138489,-1.5692625

Information:
Yorkshire Sculpture Park opened in 1977 and is located in the parklands of the former stately home Bretton Hall near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

Daniel Arsham (b. 1980) is a New York-based American artist. Relics in the Landscape is an installation featuring several ‘future relics’ – sculptures embodying themes of archaeology and the passage of time. Two of these are based on pieces housed in the Louvre in Paris: Melpomene (50 BCE), the Greek muse of tragedy, and Venus of Arles (1st century BCE).

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Harry Hotspur

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Date: 20 August 2023

Location: Alnwick 55.4146716,-1.7090292

Information Henry Percy, a.k.a. Harry Hotspur, was born in 1364 at Alnwick Castle. The eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland, Hotspur figures in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part II. He was knighted at age 13 and earned his epithet from his speed on the battlefield.

The monument commemorating Hotspur was unveiled in 2010.

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Heslington Hall

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Date: 21 February 2023

Location: York University 53.9458035,-1.047859

Dryad (1984), cast and welded aluminium, by Austin Wright (1911 – 1997)

Heslington Hall is a Grade II* listed building, originally constructed in the 16th century and rebuilt in the 1850s. During WWII, the manor house served as the headquarters of part of RAF Bomber Command. It was later converted into the administrative centre of the University of York when it was founded in the 1960s.

The Quiet Place, intended as a place for contemplative pursuits, comprises four areas: an upper room; a lower room; an enclosed garden; and, a lawn area with yews. The rooms are located in the hall’s gazebo.

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Tread softly…

The Singing Stone (2015) by Gordon Young, commemorating Dame Janet Baker’s chancellorship of York University from 1991 – 2004. The 7-metre granite monolith is engraved with words from He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats.

Date: 20 February 2023

Location: York University 53.9484146,-1.0559364

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Inner Horizons

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Date: 20 February 2023

Location: Selby Abbey, Selby 53.7839429,-1.0682875

Inner Horizons
By Cat Scott

What would it sound and feel like to be inside of a bubble?

Step inside a deceptive, inner landscape of a scale that we, as humans, cannot usually physically experience ourselves. From our first experiences submerged in the womb, to the depths of the abyss and outer space – is the universe one big bubble?

— Interpretation panel

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River of Light

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Date: 3 November 2022

Location: Liverpool Waterfront

River of Light comprised 10 illuminated public art installations distributed along a 2 km trail across Liverpool Waterfront from 21 October to 6 November 2022.

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Outdoor art

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Date: 3 November 2022

Location: Liverpool

  • Neptune (53.4075609,-2.9917735), Walker House, Exchange Buildings. George Thomas Capstick (1854–1964) and Edmund Charles Thompson (1898–1961). Relief, Portland stone.

  • Archway (53.4094535,-2.9831148), Mersey Tunnels / William Brown Street roundabout.

  • Mercury (53.4073793,-2.992011), Horton House, Exchange Buildings. George Thomas Capstick (1854–1964) and Edmund Charles Thompson (1898–1961). Relief, Portland stone.

  • Tiger’s head (53.4068203,-2.9923945), former Bank of Liverpool, 7 Water Street. One of the two tigers’ head reliefs on the double doors of the former bank building. The facade of Grayson & Ould’s 1896 Bank of Liverpool building was rebuilt by architects Palmer & Holden in 1934 when the building was taken over by the National Provincial Bank. MGMA Architects are currently in the process of converting the upper floors of the structure into apartments.

  • Liverpool Blitz Memorial (53.406948,-2.995100), Liverpool Parish Church. Tom Murphy (b 1949). Bronze (2000). In memory of the 4,000 civilians killed and the 10,000 injured in the 1940-42 blitz of Liverpool — the most bombed city in the UK during WWII.

  • Evanescent (53.4077555,-2.9919613), Exchange Buildings. Atelier Sisu. One of the 10 exhibits in the 2 km River of Light illuminated sculpture trail (21 October – 6 November 2022).

  • Happiness, the Greatest Gift That We Possess (53.407635,-2.981273), Royal Court Theatre. Paul Curtis. Mural (2020) depicting the late Ken Dodd’s Diddy Men.