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By Phyllida Barlow
Tate Britain Commission 2014
Inspired by Tate Britain's location in relation to the river Thames, dock is Barlow's most ambitious sculptural installation to date. Obtrusive and invasive, the works in dock block and impede the way, overfilling the 100 metre long barrel-vaulted Duveen Galleries. They project dual and contradictory identities: monumental on the one hand, collapsed on the other. Made of lightweigh materials such as timber, metal, polystyrene, tarpaulin, canvas, cardboard and rope, the works in dock look battered or ravaged and offer an antagonistic counterpart to the austere neoclassical galleries. Suspended , collapsed, stacked, wrapped, folded or jammed, the sculptures have taken over and create a dynamic space that challenges the experience of viewing.
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow will unveil her largest and most ambitious work in London to date for the Tate Britain Commission 2014, supported by Sotheby’s, on 31 March 2014. The annual commission invites artists to make work in response to Tate’s collection of British and international art and to the grand spaces of the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
For over four decades Phyllida Barlow has made imposing, large scale sculptural installations using inexpensive, everyday materials such as cardboard, fabric, timber, polystyrene, plaster, scrim and cement. Her distinctive work is focused on her experimentation with these materials, to create bold and colourful three-dimensional collages.
Drawing on memories of familiar objects from her surroundings, Barlow’s tactile and seemingly unstable sculptures often contrast with the permanence and traditions of monumental sculpture. In works such as Peninsula at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in 2004 or Stint at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre in 2008, a cacophony of form, colour and materials filled the spaces. In Barlow’s most recent work TIP for the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, timber lengths wrapped in mesh, cement and brightly coloured fabric ribbons cascaded en masse across the museum plaza to the entrance.
Phyllida Barlow has had an important influence on younger generations of artists through her work and long teaching career in London art schools. At the Slade School of Fine Art, her students included Turner Prize-winning and nominated artists Rachel Whiteread and Angela de la Cruz.
Having seen the space evolve over several decades, I’m very excited by the opportunity to work in the Duveen Galleries. Considering a body of new work, I was very conscious of two particular contradictory aspects: the tomb-like interior galleries against the ever-present aspect of the river beyond.
Phyllida Barlow
[Tate website]
Gloucester docks , until a few years ago a busy working place has now been extensively re developed and includes antique shops , restaurants, and a waterways museum. Trips up the canal are available and on occasion tall sail ships are moored in the docks
By Phyllida Barlow
Tate Britain Commission 2014
Inspired by Tate Britain's location in relation to the river Thames, dock is Barlow's most ambitious sculptural installation to date. Obtrusive and invasive, the works in dock block and impede the way, overfilling the 100 metre long barrel-vaulted Duveen Galleries. They project dual and contradictory identities: monumental on the one hand, collapsed on the other. Made of lightweigh materials such as timber, metal, polystyrene, tarpaulin, canvas, cardboard and rope, the works in dock look battered or ravaged and offer an antagonistic counterpart to the austere neoclassical galleries. Suspended , collapsed, stacked, wrapped, folded or jammed, the sculptures have taken over and create a dynamic space that challenges the experience of viewing.
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow
Sculptor Phyllida Barlow will unveil her largest and most ambitious work in London to date for the Tate Britain Commission 2014, supported by Sotheby’s, on 31 March 2014. The annual commission invites artists to make work in response to Tate’s collection of British and international art and to the grand spaces of the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
For over four decades Phyllida Barlow has made imposing, large scale sculptural installations using inexpensive, everyday materials such as cardboard, fabric, timber, polystyrene, plaster, scrim and cement. Her distinctive work is focused on her experimentation with these materials, to create bold and colourful three-dimensional collages.
Drawing on memories of familiar objects from her surroundings, Barlow’s tactile and seemingly unstable sculptures often contrast with the permanence and traditions of monumental sculpture. In works such as Peninsula at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in 2004 or Stint at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre in 2008, a cacophony of form, colour and materials filled the spaces. In Barlow’s most recent work TIP for the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, timber lengths wrapped in mesh, cement and brightly coloured fabric ribbons cascaded en masse across the museum plaza to the entrance.
Phyllida Barlow has had an important influence on younger generations of artists through her work and long teaching career in London art schools. At the Slade School of Fine Art, her students included Turner Prize-winning and nominated artists Rachel Whiteread and Angela de la Cruz.
Having seen the space evolve over several decades, I’m very excited by the opportunity to work in the Duveen Galleries. Considering a body of new work, I was very conscious of two particular contradictory aspects: the tomb-like interior galleries against the ever-present aspect of the river beyond.
Phyllida Barlow
[Tate website]
Constitution Dock is best known as the finishing line for the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race. First held in 1945/46, the yachts cover 1,170 km and traditionally moor here after the race. Line honours winners include Trygve and Magnus Halvorsen, Ted Turner, Larry Ellison, Alan Bond and Syd Fischer.
Hobart's Victoria Dock (left of the restaurants) and Constitution Dock (centre/right) are almost completely enclosed by reclaimed land, the Franklin Wharf.
The Victoria Dock is used by fishing vessels, while Constitution Dock has a smaller area for mooring restored historic yachts and sailing boats. Bridges allow the boats in and out. The water rises with the River Derwent at Sullivan's Cove.
Sullivan's Cove is the area where Lieutenant Governor David Collins established the British settlement in February 1804. Facilities here were initially built by convict labour for the shipping, whaling and wool industries. The Victoria Dock (originally Fishermen's Dock) was built on a sand spit. Constitution Dock resulted from reclamation work taking rubble from nearby quarries, creating fingers of land out into the water. It was completed in 1850 under Lt Governor Sir William Denison in the same week that a new constitution for Tasmania came into effect.
The Mures restaurants were first founded in 1973 by George and Jill Mure as Mures Fish House at Battery Point. They pioneered Tasmania’s blue eye trevalla industry and its first commercial mussel farm. There are three seafood restaurants, now run by second and third generations.
In the background, the red ship is the RSV Aurora Australis icebreaker. Named for the southern lights, it launched in 1989 and was the main lifeline to Australia's Antarctic and sub-Antarctic research stations before being decommissioned in 2020. It was built for the Australian Antarctic program by P&O Polar and designed by Wartsila Marine Industries of Finland.
Today the Albert Dock is a major tourist attraction in the city and the most visited multi-use attraction in the United Kingdom, outside London. It is a vital component of Liverpool's UNESCO designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City and the docking complex and warehouses also comprise the largest single collection of Grade I listed buildings anywhere in the UK.
Boca Grande, FL
Evidence of Boca Grande's industrial past can still be seen.
Boca Grande was used as a busy shipping point for many years as the waters in the pass are naturally deep. Processed phosphate was loaded onto cargo vessels via the Seaboard Air Line Railway at the dock located on the southern tip of the island.
Wet Dock, Ipswich, Suffolk
When I moved to Ipswich in 1985, the Wet Dock was a hive of industrial activity. Factories along the waterfront included Pauls, who made animal feed, Cranfields, who malted barley and milled cereals, and Burtons, who somewhat surreally made Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels.
There were also the warehouses of ECF, the Eastern Counties Farmers collective, Anglo-Norden, the timber importers, and Fisons, the fertiliser manufacturers. Many of them used the former buildings of Ransomes Orwell Works, which once employed 12,000 people. My grandad worked there in the 1930s.
The only one of these to survive today is Anglo-Norden, and almost all the warehouses and factories have gone, to be replaced by apartment blocks, restaurants, bars, and, on the Island, luxury yacht manufacturers.
The Wet Dock itself was home to huge cargo ships. Some flew the flag of Holland, and carried goods back and forward across the North Sea. Some were German, and took the malted barley to be made into Beck's Lager. Most mysterious of all were the big Russian ships in the days before the Iron Curtain fell, bringing timber and taking home wheat.
Today, the dock is mostly full of yachts. All the industrial activity at Ipswich Docks is now outside the lock gates, on Cliff Quay and the West Bank. The last factory on the Wet Dock closed in 2003. All the old Ransomes warehouses have been demolished. A new city is arising along the waterfront, and will be home to well over 10,000 people. It is the biggest single building project in the east of England.
I am fortunate that this is all happening at the bottom of my road, and I cycle along the waterfront at least twice a day. There is plenty to photograph, and everything changes quickly. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out.
Wapping Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Salthouse Dock to the north, Queens Dock to the south. Kings Dock was originally located to the west, but has since been filled in.
The dock was opened in 1852. It was named after the road it runs alongside and which also gave its name to the Wapping Tunnel.
The large brick warehouse built in 1856 along the eastern side of the dock was designed by Jesse Hartley. The building is of a similar architectural style to the warehouses surrounding the nearby Albert Dock. When originally built, it was 232 metres long and consisting of five separate sections. Bombed in the May Blitz of 1941, the badly damaged southernmost section was not rebuilt, with only the supporting cast iron columns remaining in situ. The remainder of the building continued in commercial use, even after the dock closed in 1972. The warehouse was restored and converted into residential apartments in 1988 and is Grade II* listed.
WAPPING DOCK LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE APRIL 2013
Autumn holidaymakers visiting Arbroath at the end of September, 1954, mingled with interested locals as the dock gates, which had ben in continuous use for 29 years, were removed to the slipway for examination and repair. One of the gates, which weighed 15 tons each, was removed with the assistance of a crane from HMS Condor. The other was tilted by pulley-tackle and floated off on the afternoon tide.
The Humber lifeboat assisting the fishing vessel QUEST into Grimsby Fish Docks.11/9/2006
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Collingwood dock in Liverpool in the foreground, in the distance is Salisbury Dock, Victoria Tower, aka The Dockers Clock. Disused dock and the tower hasn't been in use for many years now.
Jesse Hartley's Grade 11 listed clock is dated 1848. It is constructed of granite
Jesse Hartley Liverpool's dock engineer between 1824-1860, he also designed and built the Albert Dock and its warehouses, In the 36 years he spent working for the Liverpool Dock Trustees, Hartley either built or altered every dock in the city.
The dock is named after Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, who was Nelson’s right hand man.
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The dock for landing at the Statue of Liberty is visibly damaged in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on November 1, 2012. Hurricane Sandy hammered New York and New Jersey with high winds and a record-breaking storm surge on October 29, 2012, killing people and leaving more than six million without power. Hurricane Sandy is an example of the extreme weather we can expect to see with continued climate change - - in fact, storms will continue to become more frequent and more severe. Photo by Tim Aubry/Greenpeace
Princes Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is the most southerly of the docks situated in the northern part of the Liverpool dock system, connected to Princes Half Tide Dock to the north. The dock is now in the buffer zone to one of Liverpool's World Heritage Sites.
The dock was built by John Foster, with construction starting in 1810. During the construction, Foster ordered many times more stone than was needed. Allegedly, Foster diverted it to his family's building company. He resigned when this was discovered.
Princes Dock was named after the Prince Regent. It opened on the day of the Prince Regent's coronation as George IV in 1821. Access to the southern half of the dock system was via George's Basin, George's Dock and into Canning Dock. In 1899, both George's Basin and George's Dock were filled in to create what is now the Pier Head.
On 12 June 1895 Liverpool Riverside Station was opened, situated between Princes Dock and the River Mersey.
In 1968 B&I Line (operator of the Liverpool - Dublin service) commenced a new car ferry service from Carrier Dock further downriver. A passenger only service continued to use Princes Dock till 1969.
Ferry services from Princes Dock finally ended in November 1981 when P&O Ferries closed their Liverpool - Belfast overnight service. The dock subsequently closed to shipping and was partly filled.
Oslo docks at about 9:30am
The skies and sun make for a great set of colours, especially when HDR processed
Location: 50 Porters Walk, Wapping, London E1W 2SF, England
Just inside the entrance. These signs are all fraudulent. Frank & Stein (get it?) is now closed: reposession signs adorn the door. Pie and chips for £2.40 sounds pretty reasonable. Couldn't see much in the way of a barbeque either, let alone an open one...
From English Heritage:
"Warehouse building of 1811-13, converted to form a shopping complex in the early 1990s. This was not successful and the building has been vacant for sometime. A planning brief is being drafted by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets."