Donald Rankin – Grizedale Tarn – 1984
Alternate Title: Water Sculpture
Material: Wood, Earthwork
Trail: Grizedale Tarn Trail
Theme: Landscape
Form: Representative – Landscape
Maps Featured on: 1984
Status: Removed, no remains
Quote from the Artist: “On discovering the beauty and stillness of Grizedale Tarn… I decided to construct a small island which would slowly rotate within this vast space. This island would include plant life and evidence of past human activity such as a bridge and a ruined dry stone building which had been partially destroyed by fire.”
The only photograph of the island is the one above, which being black and white and a distance away makes the sculpture hard to see. The bridge is on the right, the small dry stone building must be on the left. Looking at the lillypads in the foreground for scale the island must have been very small. I don’t know how long it lasted only it wasn’t mentioned on the 1986 map.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
The Fort – 1984
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