Kevin Harrison – Grizedale Hall Site – 1984
Alternate Title: The One that got away
Material: Wood
Trail: Ridding Wood Trail
Theme: Nature
Form: Figurative – Dog
Maps Featured on: ?, 1987 – 1995
Status: Removed, no remains
Quote from the artist – “I became familiar with a small area of oak forest where every fallen tree was another potential sculpture… the plague dog is based on Richard Adams escape from an animal experimental station.”
Plague Dogs book by Richard Adams was set at Lawson Park. The sculpture was also inspired by the fact that Grizedale Hall was a POW camp during WW2, which had famous escape attempts.
Positioned on the way from the Visitor centre to the Ridding Wood Trail. Viewed from one angle, (see colour photo) it looks like a regular dog, viewed from the other (black and white photo) it’s right leg seems mutated. Last listed on the 1995/6 map but, though I can’t be sure, I felt it lasted until the late 90s before being removed.
Sculpture in other Artworks
Grizedale 2 – 1989 – Panayiotis Kalorkoti
The Plague Dog features front and centre in this painting. His face also appears top right in the one below.
Grizedale 4 – 1991 – Panayiotis Kalorkoti
Further examples of other sculptures used in Kalorkoti’s work can be seen in the Gallery in the Forest Page.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
Confrontation – 1984
Artist’s Website: www.kevinharrisonsculptor.com/
Page last updated Jan 2021
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