Axis

Morgan Jones – Breasty Haw – 1988

From Grizedale Archive

Material: Stone

Trail: Bogle Crag Trail

Theme: Enclosure

Form: Abstract

Maps Featured on: 1989

Status: Unknown presume removed, no remains

This sculpture was constructed out of dry stone wall, into a cross shape. It is listed on the 1988 map as just above where Taking a Wall for a Walk was made two years later. The artist visited Grizedale and talked Bill Grant into letting him make a sculpture. When asking what stone he should use, was told to take it from the nearby wall, which he thought at the time wasn’t quite right, even though the wall was now redundant. 

Morgan Jones was helped by Mike Bowerbank, a waller who also worked on Silurian Cant. 15 months or so after building the piece Jones revisited the work and was dismayed to see it was already falling into disrepair. This must explain why it didn’t feature on the 1991 map. I am also convinced that when Goldsworthy came to build his wall he took stones back from Axis to do so, presumably on the word of Bill Grant. This would have been due to it already falling down, and it would explain why Axis only existed for such a short period.

Photograph taken June 2019

I believe this to be the maquette for Axis, though in separate pieces. Now housed in the Grizedale Arts office in Coniston. Below Morgan built a second Axis in his garden in New Zealand, secured with mortar it is still standing.

Photograph by Morgan Jones

 

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