New sculptures at Grizedale Forest

We have two great new sculptures at Grizedale Forest for 2013. The first - Concrete Country, a 2.5metre-tall concrete representation of a typical country stile was created by artist Lucy Tomlins. A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, Lucy’s work often draws from everyday objects and involves a form of remaking of these ‘ready-mades’. With this approach she hopes her work also causes a re-looking at the original object and, specifically in this instance, at the form, texture and functional aesthetic of a nearby traditional wooden stile.

Concrete Country

“The stile, an iconic symbol of the English landscape, alludes to the feelings of freedom gained from walking surrounded by nature and speaks of journeys, transition and movement.

“This, juxtaposed with the industrial materials more readily associated with the city, hopefully reflects our interconnected relationship with both these environments as we navigate our lives between the two.”- Lucy Tomlins

The sculpture, winner of the 13^th annual Battersea Park Sculpture Award, has been located in a beautiful area of thinned larch trees which is flooded with light. Sited next to a natural crossing point across a shallow beck, the viewer can consider the parallels of crossing the water and the oversized stile.

Check next week's blog for more information about another new sculpture, Romeo, by artists Owen Bullet and Rupert Ackroyd. 

www.grizedalesculpture.org