Stourhead Sculpture Trail lives on

The Internet means that exhibitions live on after they have physically disappeared. Another file of wonderful images of our sculpture trail at Stourhead in September has appeared at Tonesshots the website of photographer Tony Parsons. Above is one of the Musicians in the Procession of Bacchus by Paul and Rachel  (Anthony gave them the head). Below Fiona's Butterfly  and Anthony's Egret. For more images go to Tone's website www.tonesshots.com/galleries/mostrecent/Stourhead%20Scraptors/ 

 

Farewell Stourhead and the summer

 So Farewell Stourhead and the summer. We basked in a long Indian Summer but it has finally broken and the leaves fell on the water round Anthony's Egret. Yesterday, helped by myriads of National Trust machines and helpers, we took away the sculptures. Below, the pulling out from the lake of Fiona's Heron.

A closer look...

The leaflets for our Sculpture Trail at Stourhead are now available on site, to help visitors discover the full range of sculptures on show.  Some pieces are quite hidden and require an observant eye.   Here are a selection of interesting, close up views - taken by Jack (vjultra), our Scraptors photographer, and Fiona.  If you visit, look out for these:

Scraptor Horse travels from Horseworld near Bristol to Stourhead

                                
Paul, Rachel and Anthony went to Horseworld, the horse sanctuary near Bristol to collect the horse by Paul and Rachel that has been there since 2009. It will feature in the Scraptors Sculpture Trail as Stourhead, the National Trust gardens in Wiltshire throughout September. Above, Rachel holds the Horse in place on the lifting gear at Horseworld.  Below in its horsebox (decorated by Paul in 2009) on its way through Radstock, its arrival outside Stourhead House and its final position in the woods at Stourhead, with 3 Scraptors and NT helpers.

Arch and other work under way

With just 3 more weeks to go until our Sculpture Trail at Stourhead National Trust Estate starts, we are all working hard to get over 70 sculptures completed in time.  A fairly mammoth task which has absorbed us for months - we hope the outcome will be an enriching event for all to enjoy!  


The Stourhead sculpture trail, entitled “Beyond the Garden Gate”, will be installed by the Six Wells lakes and woodland that border the iconic Stourhead Gardens.  The sculptures will explore themes connected with Stourhead - its history, wildlife, classical mythology of sculptures in the garden and buildings that dot the landscape.


The images in this post show work in progress (some completed) by Fiona:

Steel Arch in the making - springs, horseshoes, old urns, tools and posts will form part of this 3-4 metre piece.  The Arch will overhang a pathway on the Trail.  A wire nest will be woven through at the meeting point between the two halves.

One side up

Helpers Jack and Georgia piercing and crushing cans to add to Fiona's giant Spider - previously created by Fiona for Glastonbury Festival '10.  Participants helped complete the work by adding crushed cans and bottle tops around its body of steel.  As the cans have faded in colour, we are updating it with a few new ones for the Stourhead Trail!

Georgia adding cans to Spider's body

Fiona's Owl for the Owl Tree

Chameleon has now been decorated with a full technicolour dreamcoat of bottle tops (completed at the Larmer Tree Festival '11).  Photos taken at Teignmouth Seafront, where Chameleon has been crouching for the Summer, as part of the Devon Recycled Sculpture Trail.  The bottletops may - or may not - remain on for the Stourhead Trail, when Chameleon returns to its resting place on a large mossy fallen tree overlooking one of the Six Wells lakes.