Public Art on the Black Country Route


Phillip Hardaker and Helen Sayer 1996

"Newt Sculpture with Phillip & Helen 99KB

The "Newt" Sculpture

 

Phillip Hardaker and Helen Sayer were commissioned to carry out an arts project with local schools, based on the pond adjacent to the Black Country Route called Bailey’s Pool. Phillip lives close to Stoke on Trent which forms part of the area known as the "Potteries". Helen lives in Birmingham.

The Schools

The schools involved in the project were Colton Hills (which incorporates Bilston High) and Mosley Park Grant Maintained. Approximately 100 pupils from Year 10 (14 to 15 age group) have been involved with the artists.

The Exhibition

The artists worked with the pupils over a period of approximately five weeks and each pupil has produced a painting collage on the theme of the project. The work was displayed in the Bilston Art Gallery at an exhibition run in co-operation with Leisure Services in June 1996.

The exhibition at Bilston

 

The final Sculpture

The students’ work has been distilled by the artists into a series of low relief glazed porcelain pieces representing various animals and plants that can be found in ponds. These images cover the surfaces of a small wall structure formed from reclaimed Victorian bricks and copings which is set adjacent to an area of marsh at the edge of The Lunt Junction Roundabout where the Black Country Route (A463) and the Black Country New Road (A 444) join .

 

Detail from Sculpture 56KB

Detail from Sculpture


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