Grim Riders Sculpture Trail 2012
The Sculpture Trail Ride was the Grim Riders’ charity ride for 2012. It includes seventeen pieces of public art across England, Scotland and Wales, plus one in Northern Ireland and one in Eire. Including a variety of sculptures from different styles, ages and artists.
Grim Riders Sculpture Trail 2012 Google Map
Anish Kapoor’s new mega sculpture Temenos is located at the north-eastern corner of Middlesbrough Dock, Middlehaven. It cost £2.7m and is 110m in length and almost 50m high. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
Bob and Bonzo headed up to the north of England and just into Scotland to bag the last of this year’s sculpture trail ride locations that consisted of: King and Queen in Glenkiln Giraffes in Edinburgh Angel of the North in Gateshead Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee Temenos in Middlesbrough Websites: Grim Read more…
Henry Moore’s King & Queen sculpture at Glenkiln reservoir – This is one of several sculptures in the area around Glenkiln reservoir. They were bought and placed there between 1951 and 1976 by Sir William Keswick, who owned the Glenkiln estate, thus realising his lifelong vision of creating the world’s Read more…
These sculptures were unveiled in the summer of 2005 and were designed by Helen Denerley reusing scrap metal. The taller of the two stands 22 ft high and are located just outside the new Omni centre leisure complex in Picardy Place. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Read more…
The Angel of the North is a contemporary steel sculpture of an angel designed by Antony Gormley. It stands on a hill, in Gateshead, on the southern edge of Low Fell, overlooking the A1 and A167 roads into Tyneside, and the East Coast Main Line rail route. At 20 metres Read more…
The ‘Apollo Pavilion’, also known as the ‘Pasmore Pavilion’, is a controversial piece of public art in the new town of Peterlee designed by British artist and architect Victor Pasmore It was built between 1963 and 1970 using concrete, cast in situ, and was originally part art-work, part footbridge. After Read more…
Bob and Bonzo headed to Aberystwyth in search of Sun, Sea and Sandwiches via the Elan Valley.
The Empowerment was designed by the artist Stephen Broadbent, sponsored by Alstom Power (now Siemens), and completed in 2002, the sculpture spans the River Witham in Lincoln’s City Square. It takes the form of two aluminium-and-steel human figures reaching to each other across the water. The design is intended to Read more…
On our way to visit to the Dream sculpture in St. Helens and Another Place sculpture in Crosby all part of the Grim Riders Sculpture trail ride 2012 we decided to head north into the Peak District, we also decided that as we had not been to Grindleford Station Cafe Read more…
Dream sculpture in St. Helens. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
Another Place Sculpture in Crosby. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map Google Street View Map
Once again Bob, Bonzo, and Ray headed across France and in Spain in search of something….that they never did find.
Hand & Molecule sculpture in Ramsgate. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
Family of Man sculpture in Snape Maltings. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
First Fleet Sculpture in Portsmouth. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
Crucifixion Sculpture in Winchester Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
Bob, Bonzo and Andy decided to head down to London and then around the South West England to pick up all the Grim Riders sculptures in the area. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
Orbit Sculpture in Stratford, London Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
March 2012 and it’s one of the first nice days of the year so we decided a nice trip to the seaside was in order, the ride to Aberystwyth was just what the doctor ordered to help blow away the winter blues (and a the full English breakfast helped too!)
The sculptures for this Millennium project were made by sculptor Paul Norris who worked on them for two years. The granite comes from Mabe in Cornwall. This is the central sculpture of the installation. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
Alliance is a 25 metres (82 ft) high sculpture in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. It was created by French artist Jean-Bernard Metais. The sculpture consists of a large stainless steel and enamelled metal arrow column and a hoop, which glows in the dark, and falls and rises with the Read more…
Spring in Leamington Spa had been commissioned to reinstate the site of the original Spa. The town centre is in the process of substantial urban regeneration and the public art commission is the most demonstrative expression of the regeneration program. The work’s title is a clue as to its intention. Read more…
The Quantum Leap sculpture is situated next to the River Severn in Shrewsbury. It was created to celebrate the bicentenary of evolutionist Charles Darwin who was born in Shrewsbury in 1809. The Sculpture was unveiled by Randal Keynes, the great-great-Grandson of Charles Darwin. The sculpture is 12 metres (40 feet) Read more…