To Fuel A Dream

Michael Winstone – Lawson Park – 1989

Photograph courtesy of Mike Winstone

Material: Wood

Trail: Machells Coppice

Theme: Transport

Form: Representational – Bluebird Ship

Maps Featured on: None

Status: Removed, no remains

Sited off the track near to Lawson Park on the Coniston side of Grizedale. Overlooking Coniston Water where Donald Campbell’s ill fated water speed record attempt occurred in 1967. ‘The catalyst for this sculpture was when technology collided with nature on the lake’. It is a wooden carving of Campbell’s Bluebird with a trail of clouds in its wake.

The original submission was for a sculpture entitled ‘The Dead Fuel the Dreams of the Future’. The sketch shows a sculpture featuring different carved aspects. A fish, a flower, a plane, a face and cars. The dead, the fish and plantlife became oil and fuel for modern amenities. “A plane flies through the sky. From its fuel explode the past, present and future.”

This morphed into another idea called ‘To Die Dreaming’. This resembles the final sculpture but still incorporated the fish and flower. Mike continued to be inspired by these ideas and used the concept of the flower and the fish in Piscatorial Flora, 3 years later.

The final creation maintained the original themes while incorporating the local history of Donald Campbell’s speed record attempt.

Photograph courtesy of Mike Winstone

It doesn’t seem to have been listed on any maps.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Midnight Feast – 1984

Waiting For Lunch – 1984

Piscatorial Flora – 1995

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Artist’s Website: www.michaelwinstone.com

 

 

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