Andy Frost – Ridding Wood Trail – 1993
Photograph taken 1995
Material: Wood
Trail: Ridding Wood Trail
Theme: Nature
Form: Figurative – Deer
Maps Featured on: 1993 – 2006, ?
Status: Still in Situ, weathered, March ’24
Quote from the Artist: “A disused building, now partially re roofed, deer emerge from the forest, inquisitive and nervous. They explore and inhabit the new space, standing staggered (Stag-Herd), still and alert, a futile attempt to blend into new surroundings.”
A herd of six deer stand atop an old roofless barn. The barn stands just off the Ridding Wood Trail in the adjoining field. A lower path on the Ridding Wood Trail goes right past the stags. Andy reroofed this barn as well as carving the animals. When they are in the field sheep can access the barn from the field, as there’s no door. This being the inspiration for Andy to also make two wooden sheep which sit in the barn below the stags. By 2019 one has fallen over.
Photographs Taken August 2019
The top photo shows them when new, I have edited out my brother and myself, we were actually stood on the roof. At this point you could walk right up to it (and on to it). There is a fence in front of it now (health and safety).
Photographs taken December 2017
The artwork is much more visible during winter, in summer it is more obscured. Even in 2017, though most of the stags have lost their antlers, one stag retains his. Below is a view from the field.
Photograph Taken August 2019
It is no longer listed on the sculpture guides, last time was 2006. I’m not sure why, it is still a highlight of the Ridding Wood Trail.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
Shootin Moose – 1985
Chieftain On a Hot Spot – 1985
Last Stand at Bogle Crag – 1985
Adventure Playground 1 – 1987
Vulture Culture – Gallery – 1988
Adventure Playground 2 – 2004
Artist’s Website: afrostdesign.co.uk
Page last updated August 2022
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