The Hauntings
Posted in Museums, Sculpture at 12:00 on 17 July 2024
The Hauntings is a sculpture of a soldier, made from scrap metal. From 1/7/23 to 12/11/23 it was in the grounds of The Black Watch Museum in Perth but has since moved on. (The museum, housed in Balhousie Castle is a regular haunt of ours as it has a very good café.)
The sculpture was commissioned for the centenary of The Great War and made by metal sculpture specialists, Dorset Forge and Fabrication, “a combination of the talents of blacksmith Chris Hannam and artist Martin Galbavy.”
Sculpture with Balhousie Castle in background:-
Side view:-
Reverse view. The memorial in the background here I featured in 2019:-
I noted the jerry can on the soldier’s right hip. Jerry cans were a World War 2 phenomenon. Not that that matters.
Tags: Balhousie Castle, Chris Hannam, Dorset Forge and Fabrication, First World War, Martin Galbavy, Museums, Perth, sculpture, Second World War, The Black Watch Museum, the Great War, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII