Sheep & Dry Stone Wall

Alan Grimwood – Low Scar Wood – 1980

Photograph from ‘A sense of place’ 1984 by Mark Prior

Alternate Title: Sheep with a wall

Material: Wood, Stone

Trail: Silurian Way

Theme: Nature

Form: Figurative – Sheep

Maps Featured on: 1981 – 1991

Status: Removed, no remains

Quote from the artist – “Many parts of the forest are crisscrossed with stone walls and I wanted to use the structure of these. The sheep was made in the studio… the section of wall was then constructed around the sheep using stone from one of the many walls that have fallen down.”

Postcard from Grizedale Archive

A carved wooden sheep over a dry stone wall. Positioned off the Silurian Trail on the eastern most side of the forest. It was listed up until the 1991 map, so must have gone in the early 90s.

Wide shot from 1981 guide map by Richard Padwick

Sculpture in other artworks

Grizedale 2 – 1989 – Panayiotis Kalorkoti 

This painting shows the sheep hurdling the wall bottom left. Further paintings of sculptures in the forest in can be seen on the Gallery in the Forest page.

Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Rabbit 1 – 1980

Marshland Figure – 1980

Egyptian Figure – 1980

Rabbit No. 2 – 1984

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