Fred 2007 - “Visitor”
“Visitor” was a series of 6 sculptures placed in the landscape at Stickle Ghyll, Great Langdale, Lake District, for the Fred art event — September 28th - October 14th, 2007.
Recognizable structures from around the world were made from natural, very local materials, taken from the landscape in which they were made: grass, stones, twigs, sheep shit & wool are bound, twisted & manipulated into world famous, iconic structures eg. The Statue of Liberty, The Kremlin, Stonehenge. The sculpture is then placed back in the landscape and left.
“Visitor” is about the landscape of The Lake District and its relationship to a changing population of visitors. By creating well-known structures from very localized materials, “Visitor” brings the outside world into Langdale, joining the exterior/outsider with the interior/native, the celebrated with the mundane. The work looks at belonging, identity, and “fitting in”.
This is my third year in Fred: for Fred 2005 I made a series of postcards hi-jacking the landscape with my models, integrating The Lakes into The Sally Barker Empire.
Fred 2006 was my “Roast Lamb at Wastwater”, for which I sculpted the landscape out of roast lamb from sheep that had been reared on the shores of the lake (postcards are still availble - contact me for more information.
