Posted in Art, Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 12 January 2025
Among other exhibits there are of course many prieces by Hepworth herself at The Hepworth Wakefield.
These are typical Hepworth sculpted forms:-


To left and centre; Two Forms and Three Oblique Forms:-

To right above; Three Hemispheres:-

Maquette for Sculpture for Waterloo Bridge:-

Winged Figure:-

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Posted in Architecture, Art, Modern Architecture, Sculpture at 12:00 on 11 January 2025
We had an overnight stop at Wakefield on the way back up from Bath so that we could go to The Hepworth Wakefield. It was built in commemoration of artist/sculptor Barbara Hepworth who was born in the town. As well as many of her works it now houses the municipal art collection started in 1923.
The building stands by the River Calder and was designed by British architect David Chipperfield.

From over River Calder:-

From walkway over the river:-

Entrance and rear:-

I took a video of the weir from the main road bridge:-
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Posted in Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 26 October 2024
A mosaic floor found in the Roman Baths, Bath:-

Horse sculpture:-

Reconstructed and coloured sculpture. The fragments in relief (found on the site) were on display elsewhere but this is how they would have appeared in Roman times:-

Sculpture fragments:-

Reconstructed altar:-

Video representing a sculptor of Roman times. In foreground are examples and reconstructions of the work.

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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.
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Posted in Art Deco, Sculpture at 12:00 on 8 July 2024
Our last stp in the Netherlands last year was at the Hook of Holland Stena Line Ferry Terminal,
Fortunately the queue for boarding had me stopped right at the facade of the old terminal building which I had before only managed to photograph obliquely or from a distance.
Facade:-

Roof sculpture:-

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Posted in Architecture, Curiosities, Sculpture at 12:00 on 2 June 2024
Public sculpture seems to be a feature of The Netherlands. This sculpture lay to the east of John Frost Bridge:-

Just to the northeast of the bridge this building had a model cow on its roof:-

Closer View:-

This building was very 1950s-60s in style:-

An impressive looking church in Arnhem:-

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Posted in Art, Museums, Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 20 May 2024
One of the oddest things we saw in the Rijksmuseum was this display of woollen hats:-

A unique harpsichord he only surviving one of its type which plays one-fifth above normal pitch. Made by the Ruckers family from Flanders:-

The top floor of the museum is reserved for more modern exhibits. This biplane was designed during the Great War by Dutchman Frits Koolhoven for the British Aeronautical Transport Company:-

There was a chess set whose pieces looked like Great War crested china memorabilia but was designed by German Georg Fuhg “to glorify Nazi Germany’s urge to conquer.” It was shown in the Rijksmuseum in 1941 exhibition Kunst der Front organised by the occupier. The text in the border refers to countrie soccupied by Germany in 1939 and 1940:-


A cloth book for children which, as I recall, was made during the German occupation:-


Plaster model for the sculpture The Destroyed City by Ossip Zadkine, made to commemorate the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940. Zadkine said of it “I have sculpted tears.”:-

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Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Edinburgh, Sculpture at 12:00 on 29 November 2022
Roof Detail of new W Hotel, in St James Quarter, Edinburgh. For obvious reasons the building has become known as the Turd:-

Thistle sculpture on Market Street – just along from the City Arts Centre:-

Art Deco style flats on Colinton Road:-


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Posted in Sculpture, Trips at 12:00 on 19 October 2022
This is Gan Canny. (It’s by Ray Lonsdale, the same artist who conceived Tommy at Seaham.)


Seemingly inspired by a poem:-



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Posted in Art, Bridges, New Forth Road Bridge, Queensferry Crossing, Sculpture at 12:00 on 7 August 2022
As it was our anniversary on Monday we decided to visit Jupiter Artland, a Sculpture Park and Art venue near Wilkieston in West Lothian.
At present it is hosting an exhibition of paintings/drawings by Tracey Emin under the collective title “I Lay Here For You.” These smaller works were split between the Ballroom and an exhibition space in the Park’s Steadings. I must say I’m not taken with Emin’s painting/drawing skills. The best bit about the Ballroom was the building’s ceiling.

The garden outside the Ballroom was pleasantly planted:-

There’s what looks like a paddling pool in the grounds. It’s not really. There are signs asking you to stay on the black area for a start. The estate’s “Big House” is in the background here:-

We also partook of lunch in the café. The menu was abit pretentious but the food was good.
On the way in you drive past some Charles Jencks landforms called Cells of Life. Below is a stitch from four photos:-

Closer view of Charles Jencks landforms at Jupiter Artland with a red bridge in middle distance:-

In our later stroll through the grounds we came closer to that bridge. It’s named Only Connect and is by Ian Hamilton Findlay:-


The Quarry by Phyllida Barlow. The colours on the columns are a bit faded but reminded me of totem poles:-

The Rose Walk is by Pablo Bronstein:-



One of the installations is Weeping Girls, created by Laura Ford. I didn’t photgraph that one as I found the figures rather creepy.
Signpost to Jupiter. I note the distance is given in USian. (Since a meter is a measuring device not a length the better spelling is kilometres):-

There is a Tracey Emin sculpture titled I Lay Here for You in the grounds.

To give some idea of the location here is a phptgraph of three bridges across the River Forth as seen from Jupiter Artland. The Forth Bridge (right,) The Forth Road Bridge (centre,) The Queensferry Crossing (left.)
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