Fortress

Nigel Lloyd – Grizedale Tarn Area – 1983

Photograph from ‘A Sense of Place’ 1984 by Mark Prior

Material: Wood, Stone

Trail: Silurian Way

Theme: Building

Form: Abstract

Maps Featured on: 1984 – 1987

Status: Removed, no remains

Quote from the Artist: “Below For the Birds I found an area of flat ground (very unusual in the forest where everything seems to be at some strange angle), ideal to site ‘Fortress’ and heightening the idea of the viewer walking through the work and seeing new things, as from my second piece one can see the third piece, and vice versa… Fortress came about from an idea generated through the second piece and… (the idea of) dried up wells surrounded by broken down walls”.

Reminiscent of a well. Four dry stone walls surround a wooden crux frame from which a dish hangs. This was sited where Seed now stands. This is not listed on the 1988 map so went prior to then.

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During the making of this sculpture Lloyd “decided to do some etching at an independent print workshop about 8 miles away… I managed to complete three sets of prints, all related to the sculpture in the forest, from which I hope to make a small wall based work.”

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

For the Birds – 1983

Red Deer Wallow – 1983

Half Moon Stakes – 1983

Monument to Satterthwaite – 1983

 

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