Christine's 1,000 Words A Day
Another Place
Posted by Christine (Ellemford, United Kingdom) on 14 July 2012 in Art & Design and Portfolio.
I absolutely love Antony Gormley's Angel of the North. I really like how he places his art in the enviroment and have looked forward to seeing Another Place for sometime. The weather the day we were there was awful, raining most of the time and we couldn't have our cameras out for long. It was a dissapointment, there were no information boards and I actually felt a bit let down when I saw it..... I don't think my head was in the right zone, I am sure it was just too much expectation and miserable rain.
Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometers of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea. Contractors spent three weeks lifting the figures into place and driving them into the beach on the-metre-high foundation piles.
The artwork was brought to the area by South Sefton Development Trust, an organisation set up by the South Sefton Partnership to continue its regeneration work in the area.
The project received support from Mersey Waterfront programme, the Northwest Regional Development Agency, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and the Arts Council. The project was also included in the 'Welcome to the North' Programme, a Public Art Initiative funded by the Northern Way.
Another Place has attracted a huge amount of interest in the area with large numbers of people - including families and school parties - visiting the beach to see the statues.
In addition, the artwork has generated extensive coverage of South Sefton in both the press and broadcast media.
The Another Place figures - each one weighing 650 kilos - are made from casts of the artist's own body and are shown at different stages of rising out of the sand, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation.
The work is seen as a poetic response to the individual and universal sentiments associated with emigration - sadness at leaving, but the hope of a new future in another place.
The artwork was previously displayed in Cruxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium. In November 2006 the statues were expected to move to New York but it was later decided that they would remain on Crosby beach.
I'm very much an amateur photographer. I live in the hills of the Scottish Borders which has fantastic flora and fauna, as well as wonderful light.
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