Public art-sculpture Archives - Page 3 of 7

Portrait Bench South Marston Cycle Path

Jan 11, 2014 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, General Interest, Public art-sculpture, Walks and cycle paths

I just love social media! One of my Twitter and blog followers sent me this photo,which is great, as being a non-driver and bogged down in studies I don’t get to all four corners of our town.

What you are looking at is piece of public art that is also a handy bench: a perfect marriage of form and function indeed! But not just any old bench.

This here is a Portrait Bench. So now, not only do I know about this lovely bench, I also know about the concept of portrait benches and a little bit more about Swindon’s history. And it started with a Tweet!

A Mini Adventure in Public Art

Jan 4, 2014 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, General Interest, Public art-sculpture

A Mini Adventure in Public Art – Alexander House Minis public art

Swindon’s Jubilee clock

Oct 24, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, Public art-sculpture

A wee post about Swindon’s Jubilee clock. Moved from its original town centre home, it now resides outside Swindon’s railway station.

WSSW Part 6: The Watchers at Toothill

Aug 7, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, Public art-sculpture, Walks and cycle paths, West Swindon Sculpture walk

At the end of part 5 of this series, Kim and I had reached Nexus at Freshbrook, at which point we called it a day as we were ready for dinner. We’d been out for hours and had a great time but had still only visited 5 out of the 7 sculptures itemised on the tour.

WSSW Part 5: Nexus at Freshbrook

Jul 30, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, General Interest, Public art-sculpture, Walks and cycle paths, West Swindon Sculpture walk

In part 4 of this series my companion and myself visited ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ which is in The Prinnels, West Swindon. Now we move onto WSSW Part 5: Nexus at Freshbrook.

I explained about spending the last twenty years seeing but not really ‘noticing’ that sculpture from the bus and never realising the significance of it – which is a bit shameful when you think of it. Well I’m sorry to say that my chagrin doesn’t end there. Oh dear me no! The situation with this next one is very similar I’m sorry to say. Even as my friend and I were reading the ‘bumph’ about this sculpture I still wasn’t making the connection – and ‘connection’ is actually very apposite indeed. It was only as we approached Freshbrook that I realized what we were going to. Doh!

Wheel sculptures Old Town Cycle path

Jul 25, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, Public art-sculpture, Walks and cycle paths

Wheel sculptures Old Town Cycle path. There are five wheels, from the Old Town direction towards the railway and Wootton Bassett Road they are Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Conceive.

Each wheel has two parts, a small wheel showing the Element, and a large wheel with a short piece of poetry. In addition, there is a length of wood crossing the path between each of the wheel pairs. Each of these lengths of wood has two words written on them.

WSSW Part 4: Hey Diddle Diddle

Jul 23, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, Public art-sculpture, Walks and cycle paths, West Swindon Sculpture walk

Leaving behind White Horse Pacified to move onto WSSW: Part 4 – Hey Diddle Diddle. This took Kim and I around some bits of what I term ‘proper’ places. By that I mean houses and areas that have clearly been here much longer than all this ‘new’ (70s, 80s 90s) development of Swindon.

Public Art Swindon: the GWH Cow

Jul 13, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, Public art-sculpture

Whenever I see this cow sculpture it makes me smile and think of one of my favourite Ogden Nash poems:

‘Two cows, mildly mooing:

No bull; nothing doing’

WSSW Part 3: White Horse Pacified

Jul 11, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, General Interest, Public art-sculpture, Walks and cycle paths, West Swindon Sculpture walk

Welcome to part 3 in a series (I’m not sure how many the series will consist of cos I’m making it up as I go along) about the West Swindon sculpture walk – in which we encounter White Horse Pacified.

Kiln Park West Swindon

Jun 26, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, General Interest, Parks and open spaces, Public art-sculpture

Tree with tiles round - West Swindon 28th September 2014: Old post updated Kiln Park It's interesting how, since starting this blog, I've begun noticing things more. Apropos the subject of this post it's less a case of noticing and more a case of paying some actual...

The Blondinis Sculpture

Jun 24, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, Public art-sculpture

I really, really miss The Blondinis sculpture. It used to reside in Wharf Green and I loved it. It was bright and colourful and didn’t half brighten up a dull day – and goodness only knows we get enough of those! They’re now in St Mark’s park in Gorse Hill.

WSSW Part 2: How the Mighty Fall

Jun 24, 2013 | Arts/Culture/Heritage, General Interest, Public art-sculpture, Walks and cycle paths, West Swindon Sculpture walk

In the first post of this series I wrote about the statue of Diana Dors outside the cinema at Shaw Ridge. The next statue my friend and I examined on the walk was ‘How the Mighty Fall’.

Like all the sculptures on this trail it was installed in the mid-late 1980s when the area was being developed.