Hilary Cartmel – Farra Grain – 1985
Material: Wood
Trail: Silurian Way
Theme: Humanity
Form: Figurative – Human
Maps Featured on: ?, 1987
Status: Still in situ, April 2023
Made out of wood, the sculpture is of a reclining woman created along the theme ‘woman and water’. Situated on the sloping bank above Farra Grain Gill besides the old bridge crossing. The photo of it when it was new above is almost indistinguishable from the one below 33 years later.
Photograph Taken June 2019
Above is the view from the path across the stream from the sculpture. This is the best position to view it. As far as I can tell, it is a woman lying on her side facing left. Her two legs heading down the hill towards the stream, her body at the top and her right arm stretched out at 90 degree angle. Her left arm stretched up possibly over her head.
Photographs taken November 2017
These are close ups of the sculpture, from these angles it’s impossible to see the shape of the woman. You can see how it stretches down to the stream and wraps around the tree in the middle.
Photographs taken June 2019
Despite clearly still being in situ it was last listed on a map in 1988. I can only assume around 1990 it was damaged in some way and deemed not worth listing further.
Artist’s other work in Grizedale
– Her Insistent Stream – 1985
Artist’s Website: www.hilarycartmel.co.uk/
Page last updated April 2023
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