"Watching and Waiting"
Introduction
The photograph on this page of "Watching and Waiting" by Oliver Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
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"Watching and Waiting"
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 25 Mar 2019
"Watching and Waiting" is a piece of public sculpture, part of the St Peter's Riverside Sculpture Project. Installed in 1993-4, it was created by Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher, Craig Knowles, Chaz Brenchley (1995) out of sandstone and steel. Colin Wilbourn found a reference to ‘Look Out Hill’ on old maps of the area and asked the developers to create a new mound to look out over the Wear. The sculpture features a map, rug, picnic hamper and folded stool. There is a steel telescope by artist/blacksmith Craig Knowles, set in stone, which was missing in 2010 (see Image) but has now been restored. The steel book features a piece of writing about the sea in the form of a diary by Cahz Brenchley; one of the loose leaves is written in Braille. This image shows the map.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.916685
Longitude
-1.369416