Garden Festival Red Concrete Sitting Bull sculpture...this is now located at the Southern end of Otterspool Promenade (you can see it from the bottom of Riversdale Rd.). It hasn't yet been re-painted.
Garden Festival Red Concrete Sitting Bull sculpture...this is now located at the Southern end of Otterspool Promenade (you can see it from the bottom of Riversdale Rd.). It hasn't yet been re-painted.
Last edited by marky; 12-12-2006 at 12:06 AM.
Marky, thanks for the pics, I'm glad this thread is generating so much interest and enthusiasm. It's unique that we are can show the timeline of events the the park's history.gif "Celb (23)")
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I'm just wondering about the locations for some of the sculptures...add any info missing from this list:
Sitting Bull...Otterspool Promenade
Yellow Submarine...Speke Airport
Blue Peter ship...Location Unknown (it used to be outside the Police H.Q. Prior to this it was briefly at Lime St. until it suffered from vandalism)
The Tango...Concert Square
Palanzana...Byrom St (Below Churchill Way flyover)
Kissing Gate...Lime Street
Wish You Were Here...This was part of the Seaside/New Brighton Exhibit in the Museum Of Liverpool Life (now closed)
Last edited by marky; 12-13-2006 at 01:04 PM. Reason: added some pics
I managed to find the ship last year, in a (council?) yard on an industrial estate in Old Swan. Bit of an effort to get near it, but it was right next to the red animal (which as we know is now on the promenade). Hopefully they'll put it somewhere soon...
A big thumbs up from me - cheers for all the great pics
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Kev, a bit late, but cracking pics. ThanksOriginally Posted by Kev
In reply to Markys sculpture list you might find this interesting. Taken from the 1984 Festival Guide booklet...
Sculpture Terraces
Over the Sculpture Terraces, Richard Deacon's two rhythmic forms seem to hover mysteriously, reflecting the sky and water vistas of the Festival. A skeletal bird made of wood rises over the upper terrace, while a galvanised steel boat sails below.
Festival Sculpture
As visitors arrive at the Herculaneum entrance, they are greeted by a tall sculpture , Allen Jones's colourful Dancing Couple. It sets a properly festive mood and announces the prominence given to the sculptor's art.
Imagine a flight over the Festival site, all 125 acres of it. Below is a vast sculpture. Its scale is superhuman but its millions of tons of earth and rubbish have been shaped into new, dramatic form by the imagination and machinery of man. It demands to be crowned with sculptures on a more human scale.
And indeed it is. The Festival displays work from every generation and every part of the country - a stunning combination which demonstrates why Britain leads the world in the range and variety of its sculpture.
There are sculptures everywhere. Works by Dame Elisabeth Frink - a barking dog - and by the late Dame Barbara Hepworth are set in the United Kingdom Government Pavillion garden. Perhaps the most famous of all, Henry Moore, is represented by an epic 1975 bronze, Three Piece Reclining Figure, Draped, which stands in the Festival Hall piazza, near Dame Elizabeth's lifesize bronze Goodwood Horse.
A larger-than-life family of sunbathers, John Clinch's Wish You Were Here,ls over the esplanade railings; a high flying show-off, Peter Logan's Wind Acrobat, twists and turns overhead; and Kevin Atherton's Three Bronze Deckchairs are placed to observe the scene - and to be sat on.
One of the most striking views across the Mersey is framed by William Tucker's six metre high Victory, made from hand textured glass fibre.
Nicholas Pope's three-part stone sculpture near the main waterfall draws together three counties. Appearing in Merseyside, it has been made in a Staffordshire stone, mottled hollington, as a response to the landscape of Herefordshire. The gracefully emblematic tree and seed forms by the Mill Pond have been carved by Stephen Cox from a nine ton block of pepperino, a green stone. They are named Palanzana, after the Italian volcano where the stone is found.
The Dry Dock play area by Wirral sculptor Graham Ashton commemorates Liverpool's maritime history in a somewhat surreal way. Phillip King's Head, nearby, playfully contradicts the angular quality of its component parts.
Mike
Is the dome down then?
This is an excellent thread, many thanks to all and the comments SD
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December 13 2006 A.M.
omg!
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There's still a tiny pic of 'Wish you were here" on the Liverpool Museums' site:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/m...river-room.jpg
A shame...
Things are moving at last though. I do feel a bit sad its gone but things now need to move forward, the site needs to become accessable to everyone to enjoy the gardens, not just security guards, teenagers and urban explorers for the next 25 years.
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Yes, I agree. I used to go there quite a lot on my mountain bike, and then went back this time last year for good explore which was fun, but it needs sorting now. Too many burst out cars and places for kids to get hurt.
Let's just hope it's all done tastefully and that the developments don't get wrecked by the local yobs.
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