Tree Sculpture

Helen Stylianides – Visitor Centre – 1984

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

Material: Wood

Trail: Millwood Trail

Theme: Nature

Form: Figurative, Tree

Maps Featured on: 1984 – 1991

Status: Removed, no remains

Quote from the Artist: “I sited the sculpture in the nursery where it was also made; I liked the paradox between the growing plantation of trees having just started life and the constructed tree which was recycled.”

Made up of “one hundred and thirty two constituent pieces, produced out of heart of oak.” – Bill Grant. This carved wooden tree was sited in the Visitor Centre where the Adventure Playground now is. When it was created this area was the nursery, which can be seen in the background of the photograph above. In 1987 the Playground was installed here, so presumably the Tree Sculpture was moved as it is still listed on the 1991 map. It must have gone prior to 1994.

Sculpture in other Artworks

Grizedale 5 – 1991 – Panayiotis Kalorkoti 

The tree silhouette is seen middle left of this painting. Further examples of other sculptures used in Kalorkoti’s work can be seen in the Gallery in the Forest Page.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Grizedale Boar – 1984

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