Public Art on the Black Country Route

Robert Koenig 1996

"Steel Columns"
| Robert's "Steel Columns" sculpture is located
next to a footpath adjacent to the Oxford Street Roundabout at the eastern end of Bilston
Town Centre. This piece is formed from a group of 15 carved sweet chestnut trunks up to 6
metres in height which depict characters taken from Victorian photographs of Bilston and
has involved a programme of community work and development organised through Bilston
Museum and Art Gallery. The ironic title for this timber work, "Steel Columns"
is derived from Bilstons steel making background and the connection the figures in
the work had with this history. Robert made this piece at his studio in Milton Keynes. When he got married in 1997 he moved to the South Coast of England. |

Close up of "Steel Columns"

Robert Koenig with the Sweet Chestnuts that were used to produce the sculpture

Robert Koenig at work on "Steel Columns" in Milton Keynes

"Steel Columns" being installed
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