Boat Race

Keith Wilson – Kennels Car Park – 2009

Photograph Taken 20th March 2020

Material: Metal

Theme: Landscape

Form: Representational – Thames River

Maps Featured on: 2013 – 2020

Status: Still in situ, March ’24

Quote from the Artist: “It follows the course of the River Thames Oxford vs Cambridge boat race. Boat race is a section of river represented made real.” It also represents: “When cattle get processed for any form of veterinary treatment… you find there is a calming process by the funnelling, which tends to curve… It is also common now for them to have blue on the interior, a calming colour.” Combining these two ideas: “A route across London… In a short space of time you’re handled, you get lost and you right yourself. The piece encompasses farming language, natural representation and yourself as a physical body.”

Photograph taken July 2019

This is a nine metre long walkway, which twists mimicking the shape of the River Thames. Made from galvanised steel it is on the Millwood trail, just beyond the car park & GO APE. You can walk through it if you wish. Archive states it may be on loan to Grizedale, though I can’t find any information on this, it has now been in the forest for 10 years.

Photograph taken 2013

Storm Arwen in Nov 21 decimated this part of the Millwood trail but Boat Race was unaffected. The trees immediately next to it remain standing, the only ones left out of the wonderfully tall specimen trees that were there.

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