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Brandling Street, SUNDERLAND, SR6 0LR

With the canopy of a BP petrol station in front.

"Watching and Waiting" is another 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 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.

The Wolsey public house is on the left Image]

A sculpture by Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher and Craig Knowles installed in 1995. The piece represents items laid out on a (carved stone) rug for a picnic in a viewpoint over the mouth of the River Wear. The tripod originally had a telescope trained on the harbour http://public-art.shu.ac.uk/other/sunderland/fi/00000075.htm but this has gone missing. The sculpture is completed by writing on pages of the open book by Chaz Brenchley Image http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/9514/

There is another view of the sculpture here Image] The open book, cast in steel, tells a story though a diary page dated June 21st by Chaz Brenchley about the picnic site as a point to watch and wait for a son returning from the sea. 'Every day at first light I come up to the point here carrying my basket. This is my situation and I inhabit it. I spread my blanket. I lay out my maps and charts. I erect my telescope and I watch the sea.'

For a full account of this sculpture, see Image