During the trail The Runner featured in countless newspapers and websites worldwide, including Sky News, Daily Mirror, even Running blogs as far away as Brazil.
It featured as the photo for the BBC photo caption of the day receiving over 300 caption entries! Thanks to all the photographers out there who also put their Runner photos on Flickr.
Here's hoping we get to see The Runner at the London 2012 Olympics somehow....
16 May 2011
Trail Ends
After being extended by popular demand 'Liverpool Discovers' public art trail has now closed.
Images show Julian Taylor taking one of the figures down on 8th May 2011. The girder looks rather bare now!
Many thanks to King Park for the loan of a fantastic site and the commissioners Wild in Art and Liverpool Lantern Company for the rare opportunity to create an ambitious temporary sculpture!
The Runner is available for sale or exhibition, please get in touch if you are interested.
13 Feb 2011
The Runner is sited!
On your marks, get set...
Dusk.
This site is ideal for the piece. I'm grateful to Jo for finding it, everyone who helped secure it and King Park for supporting the arts. I hope they like the results?
After dark. All seven in sequence.
View from street side.
Thanks to the lighting crew for going the extra mile!
Thank you to the hard working joint commissioning team of Wild in Art and Liverpool Lantern Company for giving me the opportunity to create this work.
Installation Day!
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| Finally the day has dawned. Siting the work at King Park. Weather is glorious thankfully. Julian Taylor up the monkey tower! |
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| Julian gives them a final clean and touch up as dusk falls. Thanks to Julian for his head for heights, strength and nerves of steel! |
11 Feb 2011
Preparing the surface
No not torturing sculptures! Sanding the surface ready for undercoating.
Faith takes a break to check on her work. Loads of dust created in this little room!
Two running figures hanging around after undercoating!
Trail ready to launch!
The Liverpool Discovers trail opens on Monday 14th Feb so download your trail maps from this link.
http://www.liverpooldiscovers.co.uk/2011/02/download-the-trail-map/
We are grateful to King Park for letting us site the work there.
King-Park, The King of Parking. Just £3 a day in L1. Visit www.kingpark.co.uk <http://www.kingpark.co.uk/>
http://www.liverpooldiscovers.co.uk/2011/02/download-the-trail-map/
We are grateful to King Park for letting us site the work there.
King-Park, The King of Parking. Just £3 a day in L1. Visit www.kingpark.co.uk <http://www.kingpark.co.uk/>
6 Feb 2011
Figures coated with fibre glass resin, resin room in background
Coating each figure with fibre glass resin is done in the small room at the back of my studio. This helps contain the fumes and dust the process generates! I also wear a mask with an air line attached to help me breathe. The glass matting is laid on and the resin helps it stick together (think canoes)! Each layer of resin is then sanded to achieve a smooth finish ready for painting.
Because this commission needed to be created quickly I employed Jess Chinnery to assist me with these laborious processes. Huge thanks to Jess for all her hard work!
22 Jan 2011
Inspiration for 'The Runner'
There is such a wealth of sports associated with Liverpool that it's a challenge to depict them all in one artwork (the original brief from the joint commissioners). So I decided to focus on a sequence of movement that relates to many sports – RUNNING.
As well as being a sport in its own right running is common to many competitive sports including football, gymnastics, tennis, etc. It also embraces the amateur sports people enjoy from charity fun runs to gruelling marathons!
Then I discovered an amazing fact I wanted to highlight - Liverpool had a pivotal role in the modern Olympic movement!
Between 1862 and 1867, Liverpool held an annual Grand Olympic Festival. Devised by John Hulley and Charles Melly, these games were the first to be wholly amateur in nature and international in outlook. The programme of the first modern Olympiad in Athens in 1896 was almost identical to that of the Liverpool Olympics.*
‘The Runner’ recognises the impact of the Liverpool Olympics, and celebrates the achievements of all Liverpool Olympians and athletes.
* I'm grateful to Ray Physick who wrote the book, ‘Played in Liverpool: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play’ where I discovered much of this information.
As well as being a sport in its own right running is common to many competitive sports including football, gymnastics, tennis, etc. It also embraces the amateur sports people enjoy from charity fun runs to gruelling marathons!
Then I discovered an amazing fact I wanted to highlight - Liverpool had a pivotal role in the modern Olympic movement!
Between 1862 and 1867, Liverpool held an annual Grand Olympic Festival. Devised by John Hulley and Charles Melly, these games were the first to be wholly amateur in nature and international in outlook. The programme of the first modern Olympiad in Athens in 1896 was almost identical to that of the Liverpool Olympics.*
‘The Runner’ recognises the impact of the Liverpool Olympics, and celebrates the achievements of all Liverpool Olympians and athletes.
* I'm grateful to Ray Physick who wrote the book, ‘Played in Liverpool: Charting the Heritage of a City at Play’ where I discovered much of this information.
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