August 3rd to 14th August 2009
- Exhibition opened August 15 2009
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The Artists in the 2009 Sculpture Symposium
This is the first symposium in a series of annual symposia which will form over a period of years the Ellesmere Sculpture Map – a series of clusters of art work in the distinctive landscape around Ellesmere.
Each year the symposium will create work out of a distinctive local material. The clusters will be located at each of the significant points of interest on the Ellesmere Heritage Trail helping visitors and tourists to fully experience the cultural and historic points of interest of the mereside town and its environs.
The 2009 Symposium cluster will concentrate on an area which has formed the town’s defences throughout its history – particularly in medieval times. The area is called Castlefields, and once had a fort at its highest point, called a motte and bailey castle. Castlefields is a glacial moraine, and artists will be working with glacial stones and boulders to create their piece.
More on the Background to the Symposium
August 3rd to 14th will host eight sculptors from Europe and South America at a symposium located at the local stone quarry where they will create work to be exhibited in a cluster at Castlefields by the Mere (See photo below)
The site for the Castlefields Cluster
In 2010 the cluster will be in the area surrounding the Ellesmere Canal Maintenance Buildings. These historic buildings are late 18th century and housed Thomas Telford during the design and construction of the Shropshire Canal. The materials will be wood and metal, both traditionally used in canal construction.
In 2011 the cluster will be in Ellesmere’s historic town centre using the traditional construction materials of stone and brick. Images of Ellesmere buildings and stone
Ellesmere red brick
In 2012 the cluster will be based at The Mere using stone, wood and metal.
Surface reflections in Ellesmere Mere
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