Nigel Lloyd – High Bowkerstead – 1983
Material: Wood, Stone
Trail: Silurian Way
Theme: Buildings
Form: Abstract
Maps Featured on: 1984
Status: Removed, no remains
Quote from the Artist – “I constructed three large viewing platforms (in the hope that people would stand/sit/eat picnics on them) each one had a stone cairn on top, and although the platforms were made at different heights due to the contours of the glade, the stone on top remained a constant, so that the viewer standing on one platform, could sight along the top of the stone to the other two, thus levelling up the area”.
The first of 5 sculptures Nigel Lloyd made during a 6 month residency in 1983. It took 6 weeks to make. The location of this is unknown to me however Nigel described it in an article in Aspects Journal in 1983. “All the work is sited along a nine mile nature trail, so choice of site is very important… The area chosen for the first piece Monument to Satterthwaite was a conifer plantation thinned the previous year, so safe from felling for the next 5/10 years. The area was ideally suited to the half-formed idea in my head – a small glade open with good sunlight filtering through, near three tracks used by walkers.”
“The Title of the piece came about through hearing two forestry workers talking (trying to direct a group of lost walkers) and saying “if you go up past the monument and follow the track back to Satterthwaite…” What better way of having a piece of work titled; the locals now know it as the ‘Monument’, and it takes on a personal quality.”
It can’t have lasted very long, it went prior to December 1984.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
For the Birds – 1983
The Fortress – 1983
Half Moon Stakes – 1983
Red Stone Wallow – 1983
Page last updated April 2020
Grizedale Forest Sculpture An Unofficial Archive 