Raised Wall

Kees Bierman – Hall Wood – 1993

From Grizedale Archive

Material: Stone, Wood

Trail: Off Carron Crag Trail

Theme: Enclosure

Form: Realism

Maps Featured on: 1993 – 1999

Status: Removed, no remains

Quote from the artist – “I have broken the direct relationship between stone and earth, by lifting up the dry stone wall and putting it on a wooden construction which can then be perceived both visually and physically at eye level.”

Photograph from ‘Natural Order’ Book by Bill Grant

This is a technically impressive sculpture, a dry stone wall elevated to eye height on huge wooden beams. The sculpture itself forms a circle. I never saw it but it looks like it was designed to be impenetrable, though I’m sure people squeezed through to the middle.

Photograph taken by Robzet approximately 1996

It was positioned along the very bottom path of Carron Crag by the fields, it was a long walk to the piece with no other sculptures nearby.  Last listed on the 1998 map, it must have been removed completely not long after.

 

Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Sound Of Running Water – 1986

Caged Wall – 1987

Black Tower With Sarcophagus – 1987

 

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