David Kemp – Wood Heads – 1984
Material: Wood, (Stone or Metal details)
Trail: Silurian Way
Theme: Music
Form: Figurative – Humans
Maps Featured on: 1984 – 1988
Status: Removed, base poles just visible in the ground March 2020
Quote from the Artist: “Look the wood-winders blow hot or cold with the seasons, riffs and snatches of forest song; listen”
Photograph from postcard by Grizedale Society, taken by Bill Grant
Three wooden musicians, one playing a flute, one a clarinet, one a bag pipe. Positioned just off the Silurian Way north of the Visitor Centre. The hats and shoulder details are either made of stone or metal. I never saw these but did recently find the exact spot they were in, and in doing so feel confident in saying they would have been the same size as an adult, around 6ft tall.
Looking at the remains in the ground they were chopped off at the base. They did not appear on the 1991 map so went around 1990.
Sculpture in other artworks
Grizedale 2 – 1989 – Panayiotis Kalorkoti
One of the musicians can be seen in the left, middle of this painting. Further paintings of sculptures in the forest in can be seen on the Gallery in the Forest page.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale –
Scale Green Birdman – 1981
The Heron – 1981
Rook Crossing – 1981
Deer Hunter – 1982
Forest Fugue – 1984
Ancient Forester 1 – 1987
Ancient Forester 2 – 1995
Exhibition – 1984
Artist Website: www.davidkemp.uk.com
Page last updated November 2020
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