Detail View: SHIMMER: Spider's Web

Title: 
Spider's Web
Creation Date: 
1995
Image Date: 
1996
Period: 
20th century
Location: 
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Country: 
ENGLAND, UK
Material: 
steel - stainless
Display Creator: 
WHITE, Johnny
Image ID: 
96-0761
Description: 
View of the wall and the main spider before the ancillary ones were added. Location: Exterior wall of System Gripple Factory, at the corner of Firth Drive and Saville Street. Description: A large metal spider, several smaller flat spiders and a spider's web of wire held together by "gripples". Commission: The project was overseen by Public Arts Agency on behalf of System Gripple, who commissioned the piece. Comment: This piece was constructed using the firm's product, the "gripple", a metal clamp that joins steel wires together. The smaller spiders were made by workers at System Gripple using a maquette designed by Johnny White. It was opened by Prince Charles during a visit to the city in January 1995. The information plaques at the site have now been vandalised. Two of the wires spun by the smaller spiders have broken at the point at which they meet the spider - these no longer hang tautly. (November 2000)
Rights: 
© Sheffield Hallam University
Permissions: 
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
Image Storage Location: 
http://helios.shu.ac.uk/96-0761.tif
Photographed by: 
Dave Ball
Creator: 
WHITE, Johnny
Creator Role: 
Sculptor. Ex-staff at Sheffield Hallam University.
Culture Gender: 
Male.
Nationality: 
British.
Subject Heading: 
Sculpture -- England -- Sheffield
Subject Heading: 
Steel, Stainless
Subject Heading: 
Public art -- England -- Sheffield
Subject Heading: 
Corporate sponsorship
Subject Heading: 
Percent for Art