Another Place

Another Place is a modern sculpture by British artist Antony Gormley

It is located on Crosby Beach near Liverpool in the UK.

The sculpture consists of 100 cast iron figures.

Each figure is 6ft 2in tall (189 centimetres) and weighs 650 kilograms.

Visit Date: April 2024

This sculpture was first exhibited on the beach of Cuxhaven, Germany, in 1997 followed by Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium before being placed on Crosby Beach on July 1st 2005

The figures were cast at Hargreaves Foundry in Halifax, West Yorkshire and the Joseph and Jesse Siddons Foundry in West Bromwich.

Each of the sculptures has been modeled on the artist's own naked body and because of the nakedness of the sculptures they first aroused some controversy.

Another Place

In 2006, the local council refused permission for the statues to remain at the beach in Merseyside however this decision led to the establishment of The company Another Place Ltd which campaigned for the figures' permanent installation.

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In March 2007, permission was granted for Another Place to remain at Crosby Beach permanently.

There is little doubt that these once-controversial figures have led to an increase in tourism to the beach. 

Describing the work Antony Gormley stated 

"I always wanted this to be an open work. The sculptures that comprise ANOTHER PLACE are not statues of ideal or heroic figures from history, they are simply copies of my own body that I used to indicate a human space in space at large."

"Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man's relationship with nature. He explains: The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of the sky seems to question the earth's substance. In this work, human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet".

"I can remember the day after we finished the installation in Liverpool, every single work, through its wristband, had a rose in it with a tag on it saying Make Poverty History".

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The statues have been subjected to corrosion and colonization of marine animals as well as trash from the sea over the years. 

In 2012, biologists from the University of Liverpool studied the colonisation of the statues by sessile intertidal organisms, such as invasive species of barnacles.

Sir Antony Gormley (born 1950) is renowned for his sculptures and installations including Angel of the North 1998 and Event Horizon 2007 – 2015.

There is also a similar sculpture by the artist called Horizon Field.

Horizon Field was erected in 2010. The installation features 100 life-sized cast iron statues of the human body left at exactly 2,039 m (6,690 ft) above sea level in the Austrian Alps. It is the first art project of its kind erected in the Alps and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date. The work covers an area of 150 square kilometres (58 square miles) in the Land Vorarlberg.

Although I have tried to capture the feeling of this work of art being there gives a whole new feeling of belonging. The huge area that is covered by this work. The work covers a distance of almost 3km, with the pieces placed 250m apart along the tide line, and up to 1km out towards the horizon. 

All the statues face out to sea.

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Visiting is very easy with a large car park. (53.496091062048464, -3.0581922009735023) 

There are public toilets in the car park.







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Alison Lapper MBE

The marble statue of 

Alison Lapper MBE

 by Marc Quinn.

Date of Visit August 2007

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The fourth plinth is the northwest plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London.

It was originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV however, due to a lack of funds this was never completed. For over 100 years the plinth remained bare until in 1998 three contemporary sculptures were displayed temporarily on the plinth.

Soon afterwards Sir John Mortimer was asked to suggest how this plinth should be used and his report recommended that the commissions remain a rolling programme of temporary artworks rather than settle permanently on one figure or idea to commemorate.

Following this, the first of the works of art was this statue in 2005.

This 3.6 metres (12 ft), 13-tonne torso-bust of Alison Lapper explores representations of beauty and the human form in public space It was displayed here from the15th of September 2005 until late 2007 and was remade on an even larger scale for the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Summer Paralympic Games.

Alison Lapper was born on 7 April 1965 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. She was born without arms and with shortened legs, a condition called phocomelia.

When she was fitted with artificial limbs, she felt that their aim was not to help her but to make her look less disconcerting to others. She abandoned them, finding life far easier without external aids.

Alison is an accomplished artist and is a member of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists of the World (AMFPA),

In May 2003, Alison was awarded an MBE for services to art. In July 2014, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Brighton.

I took this photograph on a visit to London from the top of an open-topped London tour bus in 2007. It was just an opportunity that occurred and I took many shots but this came out best.

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Faces in the woods

FACES IN THE WOODS

No history or legend behind this post only this to say. 

A walk through my local woods revealed that someone had 

taken the time to carve many faces on what looks like 

drift wood and then fixed them on the trees along the pathway.

I don't know who did this or the story behind the sculptures 

but it's a pleasing sight as you walk through the woods known 

locally as Bedford park or more correctly the older name of

 "The Waun"

Visit Date April 2023

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The above information is the two ends of the pathway of the woods.

There is good parking here (51.53821306322769, -3.654298149309796) at Bedford park.

It is a very easy walk through the woods.

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