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A recycled metal antique car from Napcoware, made with metal, nails, flat washers and a screw nut bolt.
Mother Earth,
This sculpture can be found at Grandholm Village, Aberdeen.
Grandholm Village was built by Cala Homes on the site of a former mill Aberdeen City Council instructed Cala Homes to provide a suitable artwork for the area. The commission was awarded to Andy Scott Public Art of Glasgow.
The sculpture was created by Andy Scott and his assistant at the time, George Potter, and took around 6 months to complete, being installed on site in 2005.
The theme chosen was one of a female figure to represent a kind of 'Mother Earth ' figure. She is draped in a steel 'fabric' to represent the cloth weave of the Crombie Textile Mills, which once occupied the site.
The big cats or leopards are representative of those incorporated in the city of Aberdeen's coat of arms.
Duke is a humble heavy horse who pulls a dray in a park in Glasgow for a day job. Few who see him will realise he is also the inspiration for the largest equine sculpture in the world.
Duke was one of the models used in the creation of two 30-metre horse heads that tower The Helix park development in Falkirk, Scotland.
The pair of heads, known as The Kelpies, are the work of Glasgow artist Andy Scott – and it was a former rescue horse named Baron, rehabilitated by the charity World Horse Welfare, who was one of two horses used as models for the massive steel artwork.
Sculptor Andy Scott stands with Clydesdales Duke and Baron. Photo: The Helix/Facebook
The horse heads are part of a £40 million project funded by The Big Lottery Fund to transform an area of industrial land into a public space, which backers hope will prove to be a major tourist attraction.
The artwork is based on the mythical Scots Legend of water-based spirits, or kelpies, but it was Baron and his mate, Duke, who were the real-life models used by Scott.
We don’t always know the story behind a public piece of art depicting a dog, and sometimes there isn’t one beyond “art for art’s sake.” This sculpture created by Glasgow born artist, Andy Scott, appears in the ninth most-populous locality in Scotland – Cumbernauld. Named, “Cobus” after Scott’s own dog, the piece was commissioned by Stewart Milne Homes, possibly in 2012, as part of a plan to enrich the green spaces around the Linenfields housing development. Not everyone was enthralled with the piece; some locals claimed they weren’t consulted before the sculpture appeared. Andy Scott has become a bit more famous in the following years and one wonders if pride over a local connection to a famous local sculptor has softened their sentiments. How would you feel?
This is another great piece of work by the acclaimed Glasgow artist, Andy Scott. It is located on the Clyde Walkway, adjacent to the River Clyde, between Carmyle and Cambuslang.
As well as in his native Scotland, Andy Scott's public art can be found in Belfast, Brisbane and Spain.
Andy Scott Sculpture of a Heron. This 8m high metal artwork was commissioned by Sustrans in 1998 and marks the regeneration of the River Clyde and its benefits to wildlife. Located on the South side of the Clyde across from Clydeford Road, Carmyle, Glasgow.
On the Ellon roundabout in Aberdeenshire by the Ythan River Bridge there is a lovely galvanised steel mesh statue sculpture of an otter.
The 10 feet tall statue was designed and created by sculptor Andy Scott in Glasgow.
An otter was chosen to signify the relationship between Ellon and the River Ythan which is home to many otters.
River Spirit Collylands Roundabout B9140 - Collylands to Fishcross Installed - June 2011 ‘River Spirit’ was the first of Andy Scott’s installations within Clackmannanshire. At nearly 6 metres high, the statue depicts a female figure emerging from a tree base. Her foliage hands hold high the ribbon shape of the nearby River Forth. This river helped to shape Alloa’s industrial past, allowing international trade to the east and the New World.
This is another great piece of work by the acclaimed Glasgow artist, Andy Scott.
As well as in his native Scotland, Andy Scott's public art can be found in Belfast, Brisbane and Spain.
On the south side of the Clydeford bridge at the Clyde Walkway and National Cycle Route 75 is a metallic wire sculpture of a wading bird created in 1998 by noted sculptor Andy Scott. It is known as the Carmyle Heron (although it is actually on the Cambuslang side of the river). It is located by the Clyde Walkway in Carmyle near the Clydeford Rd bridge.
This 8m high metal artwork was commissioned by Sustrans in 1998 and marks the regeneration of the River Clyde and its benefits to wildlife.
The distinctive double Walled Garden at Hospitalfield has been redesigned by garden designer Nigel Dunnett. The gardens opened to visitors for the first time on 27 May 2021. The scheme was developed to reveal the unique horticultural history of the site at Hospitalfield, which has been tended as a garden for over 800 years. Visit and you can expect to learn more about the medicinal planting of the medieval monastic gardeners and to understand the form and function of the Victorian approach to horticulture, all within a glorious new planting scheme.
There's several statues/sculptures in the gardens.
The 10m (33ft) structure of a female form overlooks the A80 at Cumbernauld.
The artwork was created by artist Andy Scott and named Arria after Arria Fadilla, the mother of Emperor Antoninus.
It was selected following a competition asking locals to suggest a title for its new resident.
Mr Scott has produced several notable public artworks in Scotland, including the M8 Heavy Horse and Falkirk Helix Water Kelpies.
Part of the Cumbernauld Positive Image Project, the sculpture incorporates two large swooping arcs, inspired by the original name for Cumbernauld, "comar nan allt", which means "coming together of waters" in Gaelic.
Its proximity to the motorway means more than 70,000 commuters will see the sculpture every day.
Work to erect the statue began on Tuesday morning took most of the day to complete.
Councillor Gerry McElroy, chairman of the company set up to facilitate the redevelopment of Cumbernauld, said: "After almost a year of waiting she is now complete and looks fantastic.
"We're all really looking forward to driving by her on the main road that bisects Cumbernauld and hope that she becomes an iconic landmark for the town."
"No I am not a rock and I can feel it now
But for a moment, I'd like to forget
That my heart is sinking like a sunset" Tom Cochrane
The 10m (33ft) structure of a female form overlooks the A80 at Cumbernauld.
The artwork was created by artist Andy Scott and named Arria after Arria Fadilla, the mother of Emperor Antoninus.
It was selected following a competition asking locals to suggest a title for its new resident.
Mr Scott has produced several notable public artworks in Scotland, including the M8 Heavy Horse and Falkirk Helix Water Kelpies.
Part of the Cumbernauld Positive Image Project, the sculpture incorporates two large swooping arcs, inspired by the original name for Cumbernauld, "comar nan allt", which means "coming together of waters" in Gaelic.
Its proximity to the motorway means more than 70,000 commuters will see the sculpture every day.
Work to erect the statue began on Tuesday morning took most of the day to complete.
Councillor Gerry McElroy, chairman of the company set up to facilitate the redevelopment of Cumbernauld, said: "After almost a year of waiting she is now complete and looks fantastic.
"We're all really looking forward to driving by her on the main road that bisects Cumbernauld and hope that she becomes an iconic landmark for the town."
Sliders Sunday...........
This is one of the most beloved attractions in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Tom Lakenen's Lakenenland Sculpture Park. Tom invites you to stop by and see, for yourself, why the Detroit Free Press called Lakenenland , "The coolest unofficial roadside rest stop in the state." His 37 acre park includes a Sculpture Trail, a winding road through the woods featuring more than 100 of Tom's whimsical, colorful and sometimes "tell it like it is" Metal Art sculptures showcasing his tremendous talent for turning junk metal and scrap iron into awe inspiring, entertaining works of art.
A sculpture by Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones, completed in 1947, and located outside Provost Skene's House, just off Broad Street, in Aberdeen.
Huxley-Jones was born at Staffordshire and studied at the Wolverhampton School of Art from 1924 to 1929 and then, until 1933, at the Royal College of Art in London where his tutors included both Gilbert Ledward and Henry Moore. After graduating, Huxley-Jones held the post of head of sculpture at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen.
Working in bronze, ivory and terracotta, Huxley-Jones exhibited statuettes and reliefs at the Royal Academy, at the Royal Scottish Academy, at the New English Art Club, with the Society of Scottish Artists and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.[ Huxley-Jones received a large number of public commissions for his sculptures, which were often elegant compositions with a smooth surface and a simple profile.
These public works include the statue of Helios at BBC Television Centre in London and the 1963 Joy of Life Fountain in London's Hyde Park, He also created Mother and Child for Chelmsford's Central Park Memorial Gardens which won an award from the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1966 and was renovated in 2009.
Huxley-Jones was married to the artist Gwynneth Holt and lived at Chelmsford in Essex and died at near there, at Broomfield. Aberdeen and Wolverhampton art galleries hold examples of his work. Letters to Huxley-Jones from the architect Graham Richards Dawbarn are preserved at the Essex Record Office.
World-renowned artist Andy Scott, creator of the Kelpies sculpture in Falkirk, added his stamp to Aberdeen’s renovated Marischal Square with a new piece of artwork, leopard/‘Poised’. Scott, who has also created pieces for cities including New York, Chicago and Sydney, was commissioned by Muse Developers and Aviva Investors to come up with a piece of public artwork for the site. His leopard sculpture, poised to pounce, is constructed from steel, weighs more than two tonnes and stands 15 metres high, atop a plinth in the atrium in the heart of Marischal Square.
Allem Anschein nach ein harter Bursche. Vielleicht kommt ja irgendwann eine nette Kuh dazu :-)
Not really a cuddly toy :-)
Southwestern style lock on door for Macro Mondays - Made Of Metal theme for March 13th. HMM IMG_3366.JPG was created on March 12, 2017, at 11:11:39 AM Mountain Time In Tucson, Arizona, USA
From my evening of distraction with new camera a couple of months back. Ricardo Breceda's metal art, Borrego Springs, CA.
Here's another piece of Ricardo Breceda's metal art in Borrego Springs, the small town surrounded by Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. It was definitely a brilliant sky on this early June night, and fun to find an appropriate piece of Breceda's work situated with the Milky Way over it. This would be a piece inspired by the extinct Harlan's Ground Sloth. If you need to know more about that, from Wikipedia: "Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living from around ~4.9 Mya–11,000 years ago. It is also known as Harlan's ground sloth." Its fossils have been found, allegedly, close to Borrego Springs.
I tried shooting some of these sculptures a few years ago at night, using a small flashlight to try and light-paint them. I can tell you, being dark, they just suck light. This year, I used two small adjustable LED light panels. Made all the difference! And if you view large, you get some feel for how masterful Breceda is, how much detail he can produce in his creatures.
Did you be afraid of Alien like me?
But did you want to see it, right?
(version of my city) - starring: Alien, fear and fascination....
This is the top of an owl sculpture that is on the side of one of our trees. The face is 3” across - HMM & HTT!
The pair of heads, known as The Kelpies, are the work of Glasgow artist Andy Scott – and it was a former rescue horse named Baron, rehabilitated by the charity World Horse Welfare, who was one of two horses used as models for the massive steel artwork.
The Kelpies are 30-metre-high (98 ft) horse-head sculptures depicting kelpies (shape-shifting water spirits), located between Falkirk and Grangemouth, but the Kelpies themselves are situated in Grangemouth, standing next to an extension to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and near the River Carron, in The Helix, a parkland project built to connect sixteen communities in the Falkirk Council Area, Scotland. The sculptures were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013
The sculptures were opened to the public in April 2014. As part of the project, they have their own visitors‘ centre, and sit beside a newly developed canal turning pool and extension. This canal extension reconnects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the River Forth, and improves navigation between the East and West of Scotland.
The horse heads are part of a £40 million project funded by The Big Lottery Fund to transform an area of industrial land into a public space, which backers hope will prove to be a major tourist attraction.
The artwork is based on the mythical Scots Legend of water-based spirits, or kelpies, but it was Baron and his mate, Duke, who were the real-life models used by Scot
Schettl's is a place just down the road that is hard to describe. It certainly is unique! At the back of this large rural lot is a big hardware and whatever store. Everything from drills to full size statues of Elvis is inside. Other large buildings have kitchen cabinets, doors, windows, trim, etc.
All around the outside of these buildings is a large, eclectic collection of three dimensional art---cement statures, plastic statues, metal statures, old cars, old machine parts, giant fiberglass moose, deer, alligators, and---well you get the idea------it is full of photo opps.
Through the years I have made many images there, enough to maybe do a book project.
I used my Lensbaby Velvet lens to make this image. Then I processed it in Luminar.
heavy metal musician
performing on a cold winter day
at schettl's menagerie
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer