Alannah Robins – Low Bowkerstead – 1995
Photographs taken 2009
Material: Wood, Water
Trail: Silurian Way
Theme: Humanity
Form: Figurative – Humans
Maps Featured on: 1995 – 2020
Status: Still in situ, worn, April 2023
Quote from the Artist: “During my time at Grizedale, one of the two women I was carving became a man. This was part of an important process that allows the work to evolve in the making. Whilst the woman here is more actively giving, this is no battle of strengths. Both stand in the water one baptising, the other being baptised.”
Photograph Taken 2016
Positioned at Low Bowkerstead in the river. Two figures, one male one female form a waterfall. A series of wooden pipes in the river above the waterfall channel the water down over the sculpture. The use of water means it changes with the seasons and as it constantly flowing the wood never rots.
Photograph Taken 2016
The sculpture changes depending on the water level, here it is quite low and misses the man’s head.In winter the water level can be much higher, it makes the work much more dramatic.
Photograph Taken 2012
The photographs don’t necessarily show the scale of the work. The female figure is around 11 ft high. Both tower over you when you are stood underneath.
Photograph taken 2016
Visiting in April 2023, the wooden water channel is leaking severely (holes underneath not just water cascading over) and looks like it could potentially collapse in the not too distant future. I wonder if it were to how this sculpture would change, would the two figures remain just without their endless shower…
Artist’s Website: alannahrobins.com
Page last updated April 2023
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