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Sunday 21st March As Swindon prepares to install a dramatic 12 metre sculpture in North Swindon, sponsored by the North
Swindon Development Company to the tune of £94,000. it seems to want to forget the efforts of Thamesdown
MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL
Council to introduce unusual and interesting sculptural features into the public landscape.
Sunday 28th March
The curious might wonder what significance there is in a pile of stones next to the dentist surgery at
'FOREMARKE HALL' Freshbrook Centre. or a steel figure atop a giant horse emerging from shrubs next to Mead Way, or what looks
STEAM SPECIAL like the remains of an aircraft half buried in Shaw Ridge.
Like the three naked bathers by the lake at West Swindon Centre. the sculptures are forlorn reminders of
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the public works of art introduced by the previous regime in the 1980s, but are now largely ignored by the
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White Horse Pacified, 1987, by Nexus. 1986, by Hideo Furuta
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Station Julie Livsey Internationally known sculptor Hideo hand carved massive blocks of
An interpretation of Wiltshire's Blue Pennant Stone on site next to Freshbrook Community Centre. The
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white horses in 3D steel and con- stone is the same used at Stonehenge. Chairman of Swindon Arts
Swindon. - ;-..^ "',^E HAYDoN
WICK crete located at the play area off Maurice Fanning is pictured in 2002 with the pyramid carved over a void.
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Cartwright Drive, Shaw. Funded by Thamesdown Council and Southern Arts.
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