Wild Uplands is a temporary public art and sculpture trail situated in Penistone Hill Country Park above Haworth in West Yorkshire. There are 4 large scale installations to be discovered across the country park which were created in response to the natural landscape in which they sit. Remaining in situ until 12th October, the sculptures owe their creation to nearby…
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2025 brings the Mars at the Museum exhibition to Cheshire to the wonderful venue of Norton Priory in Runcorn. Mars at the Museum is the inspired creation of artist Luke Jerram, and follows in the footsteps of his previous astronomical artworks – the Moon and Gaia (the Earth). Measuring over 6 metres in diameter, Mars certainly fills the atrium at…
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Wigg Island is a local nature reserve and community park in Runcorn, North Cheshire. It consists of 23 hectares of reclaimed industrial land on a little island between the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal and is reached by a traffic light controlled single track bridge. Named The Old Quay Bridge, it is a Grade II listed swing bridge…
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One thing I think we all did in 2020 is to get outside more and explore the area near to where we live. For me, this area is Warrington in Cheshire, situated half way between the big northern cities of Manchester and Liverpool. Surrounding Warrington are some lovely landscapes and excellent opportunities to explore the great outdoors. One of those…
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The ‘Dream’ sculpture at Sutton Manor woodlands is a 20 metre high sculpture that resembles a girl’s face located on the former site of Sutton Manor Colliery in St Helens, Merseyside. Constructed in 2009, it was designed by world-renowned artist Jaume Plensa and can be seen from miles around. It sits amongst newly established woodlands and…
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It is hard to comprehend what seeing 100,000 knives in one place would look like and with the best will in the world, I’m not sure anyone could have imagined the Knife Angel would be the result. When I knew the Knife Angel sculpture was going to be in my local city of Liverpool, I knew I had…
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In 2005, the small coastal town of Crosby on Merseyside was placed well and truly on the map due to a very particular group of residents… 100 of them to be exact. When I first heard of the art project ‘Another Place’ that would see 100 life-size iron men positioned on Crosby Beach so it looked like they…
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It was this time last year when I first visited the city of Derby, one of Britain’s smaller cities, situated in the English Midlands. It’s also in my opinion the most underrated British city, with many not even considering it a city but rather a large town. As a non-local, you really don’t see or hear…
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Walking up to The Halo sculpture involves a short but steep exhilarating walk that packs a punch and features a weird and wonderful sculpture with a superb panoramic view. If you’re visiting the Rossendale valley in Lancashire, or somewhere nearby, I can highly recommend you stop off in Haslingden and check out its quirky flying saucer called The Halo…
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