King Heron in Anthony's field. This is after the
fable by Aesop in which the frogs ask for a Kingand he sends them a King Heron. The Frogs mock
him, so Zeus sends down a snake who gobbles them
up. The Heron is by Rachel Macleay and Paul
Boswell, the Frogs by Anthony Wilson. They will
from May 28th to June 2011 be on display in the
2 acre sculpturemad garden www.sculpturemad.com
as part of the Wylye Valley Art Trail www.wvat.co.uk
in Wiltshire and then at Stourhead the world famous
National Trust gardens throughought September
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-stourhead
in a sculpture trail by the Scraptors.
This was Anthony's first Frog Frederick which was
commissioned by London Zoo for the Year of the Frog
in 2008 a world wide campaign to save amphibians,
made in race against time in three weeks.A fllipped
over T V satellite dish made a perfect mouth.
The armature is madeof all sorts of bits and pieces
and the skin is made with recycled glass granules
donated by Sureset www.sureset.co.uk
Below is Frederick in the making.
Anthony made two more Frogs shown above in WWT
the LondonWetland Centre where he curated the Love
London Recycled Sculpture Show in 2009. He was
asked by Regenersis www.regenersis.com to make
a sculpture with recyled mobile phone dummies.
2000 were delivered to his house and he made
Moby shown below with narcissistic tendencies before
going up the Wetland Centre to join the other two.
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