Reece Ingram – Ridding Wood Trail – 1998
Material: Wood
Trail: Ridding Wood Trail
Theme: Nature
Form: Figurative – Sheep
Maps Featured on: 1998 – 2006 & 2018 – Present
Status: Still in situ, weathered and very vandalised with coins March ’24
There are six carved wooden sculptures of sheep across the lower path on the Ridding wood trail.
Quote from the Artist: “I made ‘Sethera’ in response to the environment around me at Grizedale. The undulating hills populated by sheep, I was fascinated by how close the sheep resembled the landscape they lived on. Each sheep is a small gathering of hills.”
“Yan, tan, tethera, methera, pump, sethera is the Cumbrian dialect for counting sheep.”
Photographs taken September 2017
They still look almost the same as new. Bizarrely they were not listed on sculpture maps for a while, they have been included once again in the 2018 one.
The coin vandalism has gotten worse. The sheep above has taken the brunt of it sadly. The one below is more secret and has avoided any coin damage.
Photographs Taken October 2019
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
Waymarkers – 1998
Page last updated August 2022
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