Kees Bierman – Kennels Car Park – 1986
Material: Stone, Earthwork
Trail: Millwood Trail
Theme: Transport
Form: Representational – Boat
Maps Featured on: 1987 – 2020
Status: Still in situ, March ’24
Quote from the Artist: “I found a hill with a beck below, which gave a new element, the sound of running water. This viking burial boat, half sunken in the hill, has an archaeological reference. It is made of wood, stone, earth and turf.”
“I want to make things that you can follow the shape of but it must be something that is not really clear… with mystery in it. Is is a burial mound, is it a monument, or is it a sign? I don’t know, therefore I make it.”
A boat shaped mound by a stream, positioned just by Kennels Car Park. Using stone and wooden stakes to maintain the shape. Rather a large earthwork sculpture that is also easily camouflaged by the foliage around it.
Photograph taken 2017
Photograph Taken July 2019
Storm Arwen Nov 21 decimated the Millwood trail near the sculpture. A tree just in front of it toppled but luckily none damaged the sculpture itself.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
Caged Wall – 1987
Black Tower With Sarcophagus – 1987
Raised Wall – 1993
Page last updated August 2022
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