Fruits of Labour

Fruits of Labour

Location

Next to Gordon House, (Abdns Council Offices) Blackhall Road, Inverurie
Inverurie, Aberdeenshire

OS Map Reference

NJ 767 215

Date

1991

Description

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.

Related Information

It was the hardest stone the artist had ever worked with. Counihan wanted the simple organic shapes to contrast with the hard rectilinear 'modernist' architecture of Gordon House

Era

1900s

Categories

Iconography

  • fruit

Creator

  • Alan Counihan, Sculptor

Photographer

  • Michael Watt

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