Sculpture an National Botanic Garden Dublin

Interesting sculpture exhibition in the National Botanic Gardens Dublin. On until end of October.

Collecting Horse for Stourhead

I helped Paul Boswell and Rachel Macleay collect their Horse from Horseworld near Bristol to take to Stourhead, the National Trust property in Wiltshire, where it will be in the Scraptors' Sculpture Trail Beyond the Garden Gate throughout September. The horsebox was decorated by Paul for a neighbour. Paul has wielded his brush on murals for clients in Shanghai and Helsinki as well as nearer places such as Bristol and London. You can see Rachel holding the Horse in place on the lifting gear.

Newport Wales

Newport in South Wales, no longer an industrial powerhouse has interesting artworks on its streets as an element in its attempts to rejuvenate itself. It works as it is fun to around.

Pegasus by Paul Boswell and Rachel Macleay

The last sculpture to arrive at the Horseworld Sculpture Exhibition at Whitchurch near Bristol which continues until November 1st 2010. The body is made of scrap bits of metal and the wings are old umbrellas.

Beer Bottle Top Horse

We installed Gilbert Whyman's Beer Bottle Top Horse at the Horseworld Sculpture Exhibition which is on until November 1st 2010 at Horseworld, Whitchurch near Bristol with 36 equine related sculptures and one mural on two old doors. The exhibition is a mixture of conventional and wacky, this one being on the wacky end.

Build up of Horseworld Sculpture Exhibition

Judy Boyt's JCB arrived at Horseworld Horse Sanctuary near Bristol for the Horseworld Sculpture Exhibiton that will run from May 23rd to November 1st 2010. Fibreglass copy of a bronze commissioned by Sir Anthony Bamford.

More sculptures for Horseworld Sculpture Show

Busy building up Horseworld Sculpture Exhibition at Horseworld horse and donkey sanctuary near Bristol. Above one of the jigsaw bits - about a metre wide - painted on a sponge mattress by Andrew De Friesz, evoking the cave paintings of Lascaux. They are scattered round this patch of thornbush. The effect is similar to picking out cave paintings in the dark. Andy uses unconventional materials. A former chef at the Ritz, he made a corset for the couturier Jean Paul Gaultier out of biscuits. Below my Lady and the Unicorn, made from recycled bits and pieces and covered with granules of recycled glass. In mediaeval mythology unicorns were very fond of ladies and they were often depicted together, most famously in the tapestries in the Cluny Museum in Paris. The Chinese believed unicorns were brightly coloured - I don't know about bright blue but that's artistic licence. The lady was a mannequin off a skip.

Tom Hill's Trotting Horse arrives at Horseworld

I spent the day at Horseworld near Bristol building up the Horseworld Sculpture Exhibition which I am curating and which will run from May 23rd to November 1st 2010. One of sculptures to arrive was the amazing lifesized Trotting Horse made by Tom Hill with old horseshoes.

Horses by Jill Tweed

An idyllic day driving through the early spring sunshine to see Jill Tweed's studio in Oxfordshire. She is going to exhibit these three horses in the Horseworld Sculpture Exhibition at Horseworld horse sanctuary near Bristol this summer.

Unicorn

I finished my Unicorn. It stands about a metre and a half high. I made the armature from odds and ends including a bit of a lawn mower and the bottom of an old bath tub, the latter providing a stable base. I used tennis balls for the eyes. The covering is granules of silver granite donated by the generous firm of Sureset which makes permeable resin paving. The red of eyes is basalt and the black is copper slag from the same source. The Unicorn will be accompanied by a Lady as in the tapestries in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They will be in the Horseworld Sculture Exhibition at Horseworld horse sanctuary near Bristol which I am curating - on from May 23rd to November 1st.

Ben Dearnley at Horseworld

I went to Horseworld horse sanctuary near Bristol to disuss the sculpture exhibition there in the summer which I am curating. I met Ben Dearnley to discuss sites and am delighted we will be exhibiting his piece in alabaster which shows Lee Pearson OBE nine times Paralympic gold dresage champion on one side and a horse's head on the other.

Racehorses

I drove across Salisbury Plain, swarming with tanks and buzzards, to see the sculpture of Judy Boyt who will exhibit in the Horseworld Sculpture Exhibition at Horseworld near Bristol which I am curating . This will run between May 23rd and November 1st this year. In an enchanted wood are lifesized sculptures such as these racehorses.