Sculpture Wall Traditional Cache
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Located at Featherstone Cross Roads, Parking available at a nearby supermarket, easily accesible from the pavement. High Muggle Location.
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Featherstone Sculpture & Garden Area
The History & Stories of Featherstone & its people
By Julia Barton
Comissioned By Wakefield Metropolitan District Council & Featherstone Town Council
The Sculpture Wall has four scenes in brick, depicting some of the history of Featherstone, including the mining past of the town and its long connections with the game of Rugby League.
In the last two decades, Featherstone has suffered serious dislocation with the closure of its pits and is familiar with graffiti and vandalism, yet this work has escaped virtually unscathed. This is perhaps because Barton undertook a proper residency. She moved into a local estate and began with schools, ran reminiscence sessions’ with pensioners, and modelled her design in a local community centre where people could comment on it. Local sponsors became involved, Barton stresses that her work was ‘community consulted but it wasn’t community art’. At first people found the twisted iron railings a bit arty, but they love it’. The relief sculpture in particular, which the locals still insist on calling ‘our mural’, has been a great success.
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