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Alford Bull |
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![]() Roadside life size naturalistic bronze of an Angus bull on a shallow stone plinth, surrounded by a small area of paving enclosed, on the field side, by a mortared rubble wall with cairn like pillars. |
Animals and People |
![]() Installation of 3 relief carved pink granite boulders by Louise Gardner, showing people and animals, with small ceramic tiles by local schoolchildren set into the pavement. More Information |
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Banff Abstract Sculpture |
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![]() An abstract sculpture in granite, drawing to some extent on the traditional iconography of a broken column. More Information |
Bennachie typewriter sculpture |
![]() A sculpture composed of three carved wooden elements (spruce wood). Set under large conifers Making a visual pun between the letter keys of a qwerty keyboard and the seed cones of conifers. It comments on the commercial use of the trees to produce wood pulp for paper and the subsequent use of that paper. More Information |
Bennachie, Totem Pole |
![]() A wooden totem pole carved in the American Indian style near the Bennachie Centre, the main image being of an eagle with salmon on either side. Created by the Scottish Totem Pole Project a partnership between Royal Museum, the artist Kenny Grieve (Brotus Rural Crafts) and a group of Canadian First Nations carvers (on projects in 2002 led by XwaLackTun , Xwa works in two First Nation styles, the Northern Kwaguilth Coast Salish and West Coast Squamish). This cross cultural project involves schools and communities across Scotland investigating Northwest Coast artefacts, exploring their own heritage and natural environment, and creating uniquely Scottish totem poles.. see http://www.nms.ac.uk/totempoles/home/ More Information |
Burns garden, second Burns bust and Laura Anne memorial stone |
![]() A small civic garden near the Cowie River crossing on the north side of the town centre. |
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Carers Garden Mosaics |
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![]() Landscape inspired mosaics in recycled glass and slate. More Information |
Changing environment |
![]() A large granite menhir inscribed "in sun rain sleet or snow" the quarry drill marks left as a feature. The sculpture contains a couple of monocular telescopic lenses that gives the viewer a close-up look of the surrounding countryside and Corgarff castle. More Information |
COAST 2013 banners |
![]() David Blyth worked with local school children as part of this commission. Two major source inspirations were a 1960 paper doll toy found in a local charity shop (the kind one used to cut out the clothes for with the little tabs that fold over) and the Macduff Marine Aquarium. The human/sea animal hybrid is also a concept widespread in Scottish folklore here however David focuses on corals, polyps, urchins and etc rather than the more traditional seals and fish of sylkies and merfolk. More Information |
Coast Festival |
![]() A large wooden sculpture of a Phoenix was burned to reveal a small metal phoenix. More Information |
Coast Festival, benches installation |
![]() As part of the first Coast Festival (23rd-26th May 2008 ). One of three commissioned temporary public art works. A series of 5 separate installations of digitally printed banners each was a trompe l'oeil image of a bench in place where one might have been the background to match the wall. On each bench was a montage of objects on closer inspection one can see the distortion of scale used in these objects. For instance while the herring gull is life size, the abandoned plastic carrier bag it looks as though it is going to scavenge from is full of tiny street lights and other street furniture. |
Coast Festival, Helen Denerley sculpture park |
![]() As part of the first Coast Festival (23rd-26th May 2008 ). The artist kindly loaned a number of her animalier works. |
Coast Festival, installation at Macduff Pier |
![]() As part of the first Coast Festival (23rd-26th May2008 ). One of three commissioned temporary public art works. It consisted of 5 uprights in polished steel. These created a complex visual environment of reflections, shadows and reflected light beams. Constantly changing in accordance with the light and the viewers position. More Information |
Coast Festival, sculptures by Rob Mulholland |
![]() For COAST 2009 Rob created an installation of figures standing in the grounds of Banff Castle looking down toward the bay, with a lone figure down by the sea wall at Greenbanks pointing out to sea.This installation is a play on the seafaring traditions of Banff and Macduff, with the townsfolk looking out in search of the returning fleet and the distinct relationship that fishing families have with the sea. The figures have been cut in mild steel and riveted together to resemble the plate used in fishing boats; this choice and use of materials creates a resonance with our community and visitors alike. More Information |
Coast Festival, video piece |
![]() As part of the first Coast Festival (23rd-26th May 2008 ). One of three commissioned temporary public art works. A screen based piece using images and recollections from local residents, specifically about Tarlair Lido but also Banff and Macduff in general. You will notice many artefacts illustrated in this database in the stills shown here. A large part of the artist's creative contribution rests on his custom written 'slipstream' computer programme used to display the images and audio elements in continuously changing combinations. More Information |
Compass Rose |
![]() A pavement set into the grass of the links showing a compass rose. More Information |
Continuum |
![]() A granite, glass and copper sculpture in the form of a column. More Information |
Crovie Sculpture |
![]() Large ash wood carving 12 foot high, with metal elements. The artist's title is "Scottish Athena" - Athena being the ancient Greek - "Goddess of wisdom, practical skills and prudent Warfare" hence the metal head piece. |
Culsh Monument Viewpoint |
![]() A sculptural granite, viewing and orientation point, located next to a steepled tower built as a memorial. More Information |
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Daniels piece |
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![]() Large polychrome graffiti piece More Information |
Deer Abbey, commerative plaque to St Mary and St Drostan |
![]() A carved stone relief. St Drostan is a legendary evangelist of the area, his name a Pictish form of Tristram. More Information |
Dolphin sculpture, Stonehaven |
![]() A Dolphin created from a network of steel rods in the characteristic style of many of this artist's public projects in Scotland, Australia etc. More Information |
Double Head sculpture Huntly |
![]() A contemporary stone carving of a double head also making a feature of the subjects hands. More Information |
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Eider Duck bench Forvie |
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![]() A carved wood bench the side supports representing the eider ducks, for which the reserve is famous, on columns of shell and weed encrusted rock, the back board is carved to suggest the estuary landscape the bench faces. More Information |
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Fisher Jessie sculpture |
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![]() Naturalistic bronze cast statue of a fish-wife and little girl, the woman carrying a creel and a basket. More Information |
Fishermens Memorial, Peterhead |
![]() Size overall: 180cm x 350cm x 50cm, sail shaped cast bronze relief modelled with scenes of early 20th century fisher life, mounted on a granite slab. |
Flying Visit |
![]() Large welded metal sculptures of a 'Family' of Crows feeding outside a supermarket. Each is made from parts from former farm implements - ploughs, dividers, links, grubber wheels, bolts etc More Information |
Fordyce Millennium Sculpture (Fordyce, Fuar Deas, The Cold South) |
![]() A sculpture based on a leaf and branch motif in welded metal surrounded by a bench with an inscription "Fordyce, Fuar Deas, The Cold South". The wooden seat has been replaced in metal by the original artist as it did not stand the exposure to the weather. More Information |
Fraserburgh entrance, lighthouse models |
![]() Large model lighthouses at the entrance to the town of the Banff and Strichen Roads surrounded by boulders and planting. More Information |
Fraserburgh Fish Sculpture |
![]() A sculpture in bronze in the form of shoaling fish. Has been used as a location for for pre-nuptial blackening rituals. More Information |
Fraserburgh, Beach tunnel murals |
![]() Brightly coloured cartoonish mural decoration in a style that many adults seem to regard as appealing to children. More Information |
Fruits of Labour |
![]() Carved from Indian Black Granite, a partial sphere with two larger hemispherical shapes suggestive of a sliced fruit, a peach for instance, each has a hemispherical void in its centre that matches the smaller sphere which is itself suggestive of the fruit stone. Contrast is provided by polished and unpolished surfaces. More Information |
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Gold Close 7 Kirk St Peterhead |
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![]() The rough walls of a narrow close (a covered alley) 20' feet long 4' wide and 10' high, in a street of pink and grey granite tenements. The artist has covered the walls with gold lead thus creating a light installation when the sun illuminates it. The reflected light emphasises architectural features that were previously obscured by the general deriliction and old surface coatings. The work creates an intense visual impact on the street in the right light conditions. More Information |
Golf View sculpture |
![]() Metal and Granite, modernist sculpture with an iconography related to the game of golf. The sculpture is a reminder that the surrounding housing development is built on land that formed part of Inverurie old Golf Course. More Information |
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Hercules Linton Memorial, Inverbervie |
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![]() A full scale carved timber replica of the figurehead from the renowned tea clipper "the Cutty Sark" carved from Linton's original drawings 3 metres tall. with a black granite plaque engraved with the image of the ship. The figurehead depicts the young witch in Robert Burns' poem "Tam O Shanter" grasping the tail of Tam's mare, her right breast bared. In the Scot's language 'cutty sark' means a short shirt or shift, it is interesting that despite that fact and the otherwise erotic nature of the figure, the carving is actually wearing quite a long shift, perhaps the Victorian era was much more at ease with tits than with bums. More Information |
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In the beginning, Tarland |
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![]() Sculpture using engraved granite one large and three smaller stones, that clearly references local precedents particularly from the neolithic and megalithic periods in both the style and decoration of the piece and, of course, the title. More Information |
Insect Sculptures |
![]() Welded metal insects decorating a garden dedicated to 'carers in the community'. Designed and made by "Just Bohemian" and painted by young carers from throughout the Grampian region. More Information |
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Mary Bourne pieces at COAST 2010 |
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![]() An exhibit of several recent pieces by the artist in a variety of natural stones, marble Caithness stone etc. More Information |
Mosaic Telecom access covers, Stonehaven |
![]() Mosaic tiles on a steel cover plate, arranged in a grid of 24 squares showing nautical and marine iconic imagery. More Information |
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National Cycle route marker, Stonehaven |
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![]() Cast metal Way-Marker erected to indicate a point on the national cycle route network. Contains images relating to local geology. The important fossil bearing strata of the local. Part of a millennium cycle route project funded by the Millennium commission. The shape of the whole piece is obviously intended to suggest the tail of a fish or a whale, I am not sure which. More Information |
New Strains at COAST 2010 |
![]() Hanging acrylic panels engraved with Latin botanical names the English translations of which are used as women's names. More Information |
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Old Road, Bennachie Centre |
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![]() Carved words "THE TRAMPLING TO INVERURIE" and "THE TRUNDLING TO INSCH" on each side of a large granite stone next to the path just above the Bennachie Centre. In addition there is a hole drilled through the stone providing a sight line along the path. More Information |
Otter sculpture Ellon |
![]() A 3.6 metre high steel otter in the town of Ellon, which celebrates the environmental regeneration of the River Ythan. More Information |
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Part of Art, Space & Nature, at COAST festival 2010 |
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![]() Three circular assemblages of neatly arranged bundles of cut grass, on the lawn in front of the castle. More Information |
Peterhead Pends |
![]() As part of an attempt to regenerate the area and preserve the historic associations of the pends and closes running back from the street they were given these canopies with cut metal signs, |
Peterhead video piece |
![]() The artist (Dutch film maker, Jean Bei Ning) filmed local residents walking in front of a mobile blue screen. This footage was then mounted into slides showing landmarks in Tibet, Africa, Scotland, Thailand, Syria and Indonesia. This created the effect that local people were travelling in 'other worlds'. The artist also produced a sound piece located elsewhere in the town consisting of stories recorded in interviews with local people. More Information |
Portsoy Wheat Sheaf and Anchor |
![]() Assemblage of a painted welded metal representation of a wheat sheaf and anchor with planters on a concrete base beside the main road. The plaque reads "Wheat sheaf & fishermans anchor - sculptured by John McGrath, Sandend - Gifted to the people of Portsoy October 2008 More Information |
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Rainbow Maze at COAST festival 2010 |
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![]() A maze constructed of various coloured yarn woven round wooden posts. This piece used thousands of yards of yarn much of it donated by the local community. More Information |
Rob Roy Statue, The Mannie on the Rock, Peterculter |
![]() A polychrome carved wood statue in a folk style depicting the popular archetype of the 18th century highland warrior. In tartan plaid armed with broadsword, pistol and targe. Romantically situated on a rock in the side of the burn's gorge. More Information |
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Salmon Above The Flood , Don-Ury Ury-Don |
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![]() A Stainless Steel sculpture designed by Alison Simpson celebrating the town created on the confluence of the rivers Don and Ury. The salmon symbol evokes the Pictish symbol that is extant in sculptures still apparent in the local environment and thus the continuity of the settlement's cultural heritage. |
Sculpture at the Watchie |
![]() A painted steel sculpture in the grounds of this venue, it maintains a vigil that evokes the original raison d'être of the building. More Information |
Seagulls sculpture Fraserburgh |
![]() A reinforced concrete sculpture of seagulls/waves, quite appropriately for Fraserburgh. It was designed and made by Sydney James Burnett in the ? late sixties and won a Saltire Award in 1972. Sydney at the time was head of Gray's School of Art (Aberdeen) Sculpture Department. |
Seatree sculpture Banff |
![]() Commissioned by Aberdeenshire Council, with funding from Mobil? A stone sculpture in the form of a polygonal pillar with a capitol based on a 6 pointed star. Carved in relief with symbols, fish, shells, whales, ships, Pegasus and a mermaid included and inscriptions. It is inscribed with the motto "touch not the cat but a glove", this is the motto of several clan names: Chattan, MacIntosh, Gow, MacPherson, MacGillivray and etc. In this case I presume it is a reference to the outlaw MacPherson. |
Shelter shed murals Banff links |
![]() Mural painted inside one of the shelters at Banff links, a seascape showing a seal, a boat and a dolphin these were painted by young people as part of a Princes Trust project during November 2006. More Information |
Shorehead Information board |
![]() A sloping mosaic panel that surely draws on the local wealth of 'art deco' design, artefacts and buildings. With an inset information panel. It is set on a contrasting plinth of rough masonary. More Information |
Slate cairn, Bervie Braes information point |
![]() A hemispherical slate cairn with a, metal bound, circular slate-mosaic upper surface with an inset information panel. More Information |
Stephen Healy & Sperm Whale |
![]() Glasgow based Stephen came to an outsider’s conclusion, based on the architectural layout and history of Peterhead that he had observed, that “Peterhead is and has always probably been an unpretentious working class community. Taking into account the town's social and economical history and its reliance and existence on the fishing industry, there seems to be a functional no nonsense attitude when it comes to the towns general look." He also noted a lack of any decadence with the town’s character, in the form of frills, “aesthetics for aesthetic sake”. His intervention aimed to address some of these issues that the granite town portrays. |
Stonehaven Beach Waveform |
![]() A dry garden of shingle, cut timbers and boulders, in a style derived at some distance from Japanese Zen dry gardens that seems to have become popular for public installations. More Information |
Stonehaven Boardwalk furniture |
![]() Public seating area with decking and modernist bench constructed from massive sawn timber More Information |
Stonehaven Boardwalk Bird with Fish sculpture |
![]() A new welded metal sculpture depicting a Common Shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis (identifiable by its distinctive breeding crest that distinguishes it from the Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo). It is holding a fish in its beak. More Information |
Stonehaven Boardwalk Salmon |
![]() A welded metal sculpture of a cock salmon, if it was inspired by Andy Scott's nearby work I think the anonymous creator outdid that work with this piece that while being thoroughly contemporary has the resonance of the ancient Pictish Salmon symbol. It is to be hoped that its disappearance does not mean it has been destroyed by the sea or vandalism. More Information |
Stuartfield Bell |
![]() A combined seat, weather vane and bell mount, set on a cobble stone circle. The main frame in green painted tubular steel supports at its base a circular wooden seat and at its apex a bell surmounted by a weather vane in the shape of a swan. |
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Temporary Installation of Horse and Stag sculptures, Portsoy |
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![]() Approximately life size sculptures in an iron filigree technique. More Information |
THE CALLING OF THE CUCKOO IS THE OTHER SIDE OF SPRING |
![]() Made of various stones the work consists of the carved words "THE CALLING OF THE CUCKOO IS THE OTHER SIDE OF SPRING" on a low dyke. In addition there is a carved 'egg' with an incised crack. It celebrates the adjacent Goukstane ("Cuckoo stone"), which is signposted just off the walk to the summit, a large boulder. According to legend it is said to be visited by the first cuckoo to return to Bennachie after spending winter in Africa. Other people believe that this large stone was thrown down the hill by the mythical giant Jock O' Bennachie. |
The Eternal Present |
![]() A sculpture consisting of three large spheres of granite, gneiss and gabbro; sourced from Aberdeenshire quarries. Carved in designs based on the enigmatic neolithic stone balls known as 'petrospheres' that are estimated to have been produced between 5,000 and 2,000 B. C. These neolithic objects, of hand holding size, and of unknown function are peculiar to Scotland (except for 1 Irish and 4 Northern English finds) and have been found in considerable number particularly in the North-east, currently 425 known . They are decorated with varied numbers of knobs or more precisely convex discs anything from 3 to 160. Perhaps the best known because one of the most highly decorated is the Towie Ball. See external link to NMS More Information |
The Felling of the Timber, is the making of the home |
![]() Tree stump carved in the shape of a cupboard with an open drawer and the words "THE FELLING OF THE TIMBER IS THE MAKING OF THE HOME" More Information |
The folding of the land |
![]() OS ref is approximate. A serpentine arrangement of lengths of round timber set upright in the ground. Each post is branded with a letter on the top so that the whole piece spells out the aphorism "The folding of the land is the unfolding of the way" More Information |
Turra Coo |
![]() A life size bronze cow decorated with cast garlands and a rope halter, behind the cow is a series of cast cow footprints. On the right flank in slightly raised and differently coloured metal representing the painted lettering on the historical "Turra Coo" at her return, are the words "FREE !! DIVN'T YE WISH THAT YE WERE ME". The sculpture was created by a casting process from an actual cow's body. The historical coo was an Ayrshire cross Shorthorn, no suitable cow of that variety could be obtained so the animal used, a Jersey-Blonde cross, was picked as similar looking to photographs of the original beast. Also illustrated are examples of the "Coo Heads" created by Turriff Academy pupils during the education package associated with the sculpture project and exhibited in the town shops during the month of the unveiling. More Information |
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Walking Way |
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![]() Fraserburgh’s former rail links have inspired a unique pathway with sculptural structures that connect the town to its seafront. |
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