Barnacle Trees
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Location
| Street: | Old Shoreham Road |
| Town: | Shoreham-by-Sea |
| Parish: | Shoreham-by-Sea |
| Council: | Adur District Council |
| County: | West Sussex |
| Postcode: | BN43 |
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| Object setting: | Outside building |
| and in: | Road or Wayside |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | Riverside Walk, Ropetackle Development |
| In the AZ book: | West Sussex |
| Page: | 151 |
| Grid reference: | H6 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
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Makers
| Name : | Steve Geliot |
| Company/Group : | PRC Fewster: Adrian Morton |
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General Information
| Commissioned by: | Adur District Council, Berkley Homes, PRC Fewster; |
| Commissioned also by: | Arts Council England SE, South East England Development Agency (SEEDA); |
| Construction period: | 2004-2005 |
| Installation date: | 2005 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Adur District Council / Berkeley Homes |
| Object listing: | Not listed |
| Description: | Four stainless steel shafts, embedded in wooden bases with branches at the top, illuminated by fibre optics. |
| Iconographical description: | Sculptures, ‘refer to the diverse microscopic flora and fauna of the river.’ Magnified images of ‘barnacles clinging to the pebbles on the river bed’ (Art by the River) |
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Classification
| Categories: | Roadside / Wayside, Free Standing, Composite, Sculptural |
| Object type1: | Sculpture |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Shafts |
| Material: | Stainless steel |
| Height (cm): | 1000 |
| Part 2: | Bases |
| Material: | Wood |
| Part 3: | Tips of 'branches' |
| Material: | Fibre optics |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 04/01/2008 |
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History
| History: | Commissioned by: Adur District Council, Berkley Homes, PRC Fewster; South East England Development Agency (SEEDA); Arts Council England SE (contributed £23,500, added to money assigned by Berkley Homes). The cast concrete contains pea shingle and imported aggregates inc. Italian green marble and Spanish white marble.
'Steve Geliot’s stainless steel sculptures refer to the diverse microscopic flora & fauna of the river. Architectural in scale and illuminated using fibre optics, the shapes are based on magnified images of estuary micro-organisms. ''An underlying theme through a lot of my work is a fascination with the ingenuity of nature, of how it changes and responds. I also like to play games with scale, where something is at once an atom or a planet. I particularly liked the barnacles clinging to the pebbles on the riverbed, and imagined what they would look like 10 metres tall.'' ('Sculpture at Ropetackle') Geliot also lead artist for New England development, Brighton and Arts Coordinator at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust (sculpture at Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital 2007) |
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References
| Source 1 : | |
| Title: | http://www.adur.gov.uk/docs/ropetackle/art-by-the-river-ropetackle-a3.pdf |
| Type: | Archive |
| Publisher: | Adur District Council |
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| Title: | http://www.adur.gov.uk/docs/ropetackle/ropetackle.pdf |
| Type: | Archive |
| Publisher: | Adur District Council |
Further information: | |
| http://www.adur.gov.uk/docs/ropetackle/art-by-the-river-ropetackle-a3.pdf#http://www.adur.gov.uk/docs/ropetackle/art-by-the-river-ropetackle-a3.pdf# | |
| http://www.adur.gov.uk/docs/ropetackle/ropetackle.pdf#http://www.adur.gov.uk/docs/ropetackle/ropetackle.pdf# | |
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Photographs
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
 Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons | |
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