Title:
‘Gates’
Location:
Catchgate, Co
Durham, 2000
Materials:
Buff sandstone
Description: A
pair of sculptures to be sited at either end of Catchgate village,
the designs intended as a multiple play on the name. One depicts a
garden gate, the other a farm gate, with their quite different types
of catch (a lever and spring type respectively). Each also
incorporates a bird with another sort of ‘catch’ – a blackbird with
a worm and a thrush with a snail. The scale is approximately double
life-size.