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Sculpture By The Sea U.K. /Cerflun ar lan y Mor
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Site Specific Commissions Swansea Foreshore As part of the Sculpture by the Sea U.K. Festival 05/Cerflun ar lan y Mor Gwyl an inspirational sculpture competition to celebrate the fine art and link the community of Swansea with Europe in an artistic and environmental way was also organised. The competition features three site specific sculptures created by European Artists whose works will mark the festival's special SSSI site boundaries, on the foreshore between Knab Rock and Singleton in the beautiful bay of Mumbles on the Gower Peninsula. The concepts for these sculptures have been developed through the Welsh, Gaelic and French cultures to celebrate the links between twinned towns Mumbles in Wales, Kinsale in Ireland and Henebont in France together with aspects about the special scientific site where the event will be held. The site is a bird scantuary for species such as Oystercatchers, Grey Plovers, Bar-tailed Godwits, Dunlins and others. The works chosen in some way incorporate these aspects, reflecting and marking the special site. The three sculptures will form a special trail along the foreshore. The competition was put out to the arts community in 2005 and the following Artists featured below were selected for the commissions.
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SCULPTURE BY THE SEA U.K./CERFLUN AR LAN Y MOR
COMMISSIONED SCULPTURES
The Artists and their Sculpture
WALES
Ami Marsden BA (hons)
Sculpture No. 1: Bird Sculptural Panel
Proposed site: Blackpill
Welsh Oak
Size: 33x45"x1.5"
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Proposed Sculpture: Bird Sculptural Panel Ami Marsden Front and Back Views
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To see work in progress on Ami's sculpture click on the photo |
The oak panel will illustrate some of Swansea Bay's rare sea birds. Carvings of Gulls and Oystercatchers will be in both base relief and three dimensions, added both to the surface and overlapping the edges of the panel. Some will also be cut out of the panel leaving silhouettes of birds in flight. It will be mounted on two wooden legs and attached to the path wall where it meets the sand. The height will be such that adults, children and people in wheelchairs will all benefit as they watch the flight of birds in their landscape and the changing views through the silhouettes.
The silhouettes of the birds indicate their rarity and the need for the SSSI. The photo images of the birds are all to be carved separately, then attached. The drawing of the Oystercatchers on the back are to be carved directly into the panel in relief and the shape on the edge of the panel is a bird's head, breaking the formality of line.
WALES/FRANCE
Michael Marriott FRBS, NDD.
Sculpture No. 2: Bird Totem
Proposed Site: Stone Promentary on foreshore, Opposite Brynmill Lane
Size: 15 - 20 feet
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Bird Totem Michael Marriott |
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The sculpture will be constructed from local natural materials. Two to three carved pine poles will support a symbolic bird's nest and eggs woven from willow. The top section is designed to move with the direction of the wind using two bird's wings and a feather pointer carved from wood. Beneath the nest, some wires are stretched to create wind sounds.
IRELAND
Rorie Brophy B.A.(hons)
Sculpture No. 3: Feather Form
Proposed Site: Knab Rock, Mumbles
Aluminous Cement and steel
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This sculpture will be constructed from 3D white concrete discs of varying sizes. The discs will be threaded like a necklace onto a 50mm thick steel bar. When complete, they will form a beautiful and simple abstracted feather form.Each disc is heavily textured, it has the appearance of some strange fossilised surface, it tells a story of interdependence, of life, death, continuation, erosion and the weight of time.The work of art is designed to interact harmoniously within a natural and open environment. Its shape and stark white colour lend it a classical authority. From a distance it presents a simple and elegant profile. Closer up and it begins to reveal every increasing complexity, every visible surface is deeply textured with shells, bird skulls, bones, feathers and the complex visual aesthetic of life. Like Fractal Geometry, the closer you look the more complexity is revealed.
The artists above have all been commissioned to create their sculptures and we are looking ahead to installation of the sculptures by the summer of 06 to create the special sculpture trail on Swansea Foreshore for everyone to enjoy
Other finalists for the competition are featured below.
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Tracks Board Game 120cm x 65cm x 60cm x 85cms
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Proposed Sculpture: Tracks Board Game -Timber and steel Based on concepts developed through the festival workshops, the sculpture (seen here in model form) is an interactive piece that relates stongly to the site and can be played by future visitors. Pebbles and shells could be used as counters and the board would also be fitted with a spinning metal disc marked with numbers as a dice. Substantial timber will be used to create the sculpture and the game itself would be carved into its surface.
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David LLoyd HND
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Example of Previous work Bee Orchid Knelston Primary School |
Example of previous work -detail of bench |
Steve Phillips B.A.(hons)
Proposed Sculptures: Oystercatcher and Shell
Wood, metal and fibreglass
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Proposed Sculpture: Oystercatcher |
Proposed Sculpture: Shell |
The large shell was influenced by the festival environment. It will be 6ft high by 5ft across. The large circular opening will be a interactive feature for viewers to crawl inside and hear the sea through the shell sitting on a special seat. The Oystercatcher, made from wood and metal is a complimentary piece that reflects the special birds at Blackpill.
Sarah Tombs MA (RCA)
Proposed Sculpture: Reeds and Floats
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Proposed Sculpture: Reeds and Floats (working title) by Sarah Tombs |
Previous Work: Nijinsky 2002 steel. Private collection |
This sculptural installation is intended to be sited at the water's edge or in the river that flows into Blackpill. Visually the vertical steel forms create a striking impact on the horizontal seascape by piercing the water's edge with needle like precision. The composition of the installation changes due to parallax as the viewer walks along the shoreline. When the tide floods or wind blows the reeds gently move, creating subtle ripples in the water. Transparent acrylic components shaped like buoys or droplets of water are attached to the metal upright reeds and like mirrors, they reflect each other, the sea, the sky, the reeds and the changing light patterns. Like lenses they condense their surroundings into small orbs, and the refraction of sunlight will create rainbows adding a poetic element to the pieces. A further group of transparent hollow forms are tethered to the base plate by invisible lines of different lengths. These forms will float on the surface of the water and become sequentially revealed and hidden as the tide rises and falls.
THE ARTISTS- FRANCE
Charlot::
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Proposal to follow
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