Detail View: SHIMMER: Cutlery

Title: 
Cutlery
Creation Date: 
1998
Dimensions: 
2 m high
Image Date: 
1998
Period: 
20th century
Location: 
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Country: 
ENGLAND, UK
Material: 
6 gritstone boulders
Display Creator: 
BRAILSFORD, Victoria
Image ID: 
98-3302
Description: 
Location: Penistone Rd, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Two of the six boulders.

Location: Traffic Island on Penistone Road (A 61) at the bottom of Hoyle Street. Paul Carruther's Lights and Vega Bermejo's 'Pigeons' (the latter now stolen) were visible from the traffic island.

Description: Large silhouettes of various forms of cutlery have been carved into six large gritstone boulders which were placed, some years before, at the three corners of a landscaped traffic island. Inspired by pattern books. Each boulder stands typically just under 2 metres high.

Commission: Sheffield City Council. Funding from European Regional Development Fund.

Comment: This should surely be a popular piece as it depicts in a straightforward manner items from Sheffield's industrial heritage which have contributed to the history of the city.

Update [2009]: This area has being re-developed but the boulders were replaced in the middle of a major roundabout - see Google maps < https://goo.gl/maps/ZFyl1 > .

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/98-3302.tif
Photographed by: 
Dave Ball
Creator: 
BRAILSFORD, Victoria
Creator Dates - Born: 
1952
Creator Role: 
Sculptor.
Culture Gender: 
Female.
Nationality: 
British.
Subject Heading: 
Public art
Subject Heading: 
Stone carving
Subject Heading: 
Sculpture -- England -- Sheffield
Subject Heading: 
Cutlery trade -- England -- Sheffield