Private Meeting

Robert Koenig – Low Bowkerstead – 1983

Text from the 1988 sculpture map. Photograph by Jon Paterson

Material: Wood

Trail: Silurian Way

Theme: Humanity

Form: Figurative – Humans

Maps Featured on: 1984 – 2002

Status: Two figures still in situ, very worn April 2023

Created on Koenig’s Three carved wooden figures of men, about 4 foot high. In a huddle discussing their private matters. Located near the road at Low Bowkerstead you have to cross a small stream to get to them. In winter I have known the stream to be so high it’s uncrossable, but that’s not common.

Photographs Taken 1995

Above is a colour photo of them having been in the forest for thirteen years. They still look remarkably good condition. Below after twenty seven years one of the men has lost his head, then has been exhumed and left leaning nearby. I don’t know who did this personally I think it was a visitor. Grizedale would have removed it completely. Either way now two members remain in their meeting.

  Photographs Taken 2009

Photograph taken 2018

Left photo by Reece Ingram 1997. Right my photo taken 2017.

The original waymarker for this sculpture was a goose, created and sited in 1997. At some point this was removed. The current waymarker for this artwork is a badger with a moon. The waymarker used to mark A Cry in the Wilderness, before being moved here.

This waymarker has now fallen over and is unrecognisable anymore (July 2020).

Sculpture in other Artworks

Grizedale 1 – 1989 – Panayiotis Kalorkoti

The maquette of Private Meeting can be seen on the right of this picture of Bill Grant in his office. 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 –

Triangular Suspension, Trophies, Multiple Arch – 1982

The Guardians – 1982

Compound for Redundant Symbols – 1982

Signpost – 1982

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Artist’s Website: www.robertkoenig-sculptor.com/

Page last updated April 23