Samantha Clarke – Machell Coppice – 1999
Material: Glass
Trail: Machell Coppice
Theme: Nature
Form: Representational – Trees
Maps Featured on: 2000 – 2005
Status: Decommissioned, no remains
Positioned over at the Coniston side of Grizedale near Lawsons Park. The sculpture involved multiple trees in the vicinity. Glass beads of sap ran down the trees, behind which were images of landscapes. The trees had small carvings in them which the glass beads sat.
This part of the forest is best accessed from the car park beside Coniston Lake. This means that it was fairly inaccessible to most visitors to Grizedale. We made a special trip to see the artwork in the early 00’s. By this time some of the glass had either been removed (stolen) or had started falling off.
Still listed on the 2003- 05 Map after which it was removed.
On a recent visit there are no visible remains of this artwork the trees have re grown over the small cuts used to house the droplets.
Artist’s Website: www.samanthaclark.net
Page last updated April 2020
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