Colin Rose – Ridding Wood – 1984
Material: Wood
Trail: Ridding Wood Trail
Theme: Music
Form: Representational – Circle
Maps Featured on: ?, 1987 – 2019
Status: Currently removed awaiting re-siting August 2022
Quote from the Artist: “I became interested in the idea of objects emitting inaudible sounds that varied with their shape and size. Ting was conceived for Grizedale in a sense. A pure shape (40 feet diameter steel circle) tightly woven through the branches of a tree, that could not be seen in total, only sensed; and existing within the magnitude of organic forms offered by the forest. A silence within a noise.”
A huge steel ring woven through a tree, which can be viewed from the main road through Grizedale as well as glimpsed from the Ridding Wood Trail. It is more obscured during the summer and clearer in winter, though never fully exposed. The name comes from the imagined sound that would be produced if it was hit by something.
Photographs taken September 2017
Rose first worked in Grizedale for David Nash years previously. Ting was originally sited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before coming to Grizedale as seen here:
Ting while sited in the Lower Park area of Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
When it arrived in Grizedale it was the first completely metal sculpture in the forest and received criticism at the time for both its material and location.
Although as Bill Grant predicted in the Westmorland Gazette article from 1984 above, over time it has become a favourite.
During 2019 one of the three trees around Ting fell over, after testing they discovered the beech tree Ting is in was also diseased and needed felling. When I visited in October 2021 I was told discussions were ongoing between Grizedale and Colin Rose as to what to do with Ting, whether to move it to the next tree over, which is a different species and so safe from disease. Ting is currently more visible than it’s ever been and was ever meant to be.
Photograph Taken October 2019
As of August 2022 the tree Ting was in has been felled/ has fallen over. Ting has been removed and turned into a new sculpture called Arc near Moor Top
Other Work by this Artist –
Wriggle – 2022
Arc – 2023
Artist’s Website: www.colinrose.co.uk
Page last updated October 2023
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