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Description: | Stocky male figure seated on a bollard, naked except for a sycamore leaf over his genitals and a sock on his left foot which he extends before him, looking down admiringly at it. According to the sculptor, the 'sock pattern echoes the zig-zag of the new bollards in the Market Place, while the surrounding Art Deco buildings (e.g. the Curzon Cinema) inspired his deco hair cut'. On the figure's right arm is an incised tattoo of a heart above the work 'Loughborough' set within a scroll motif. The bollard on which he sits is decorated with incised images from the history of the town: a railway track and train, representing Thomas Cook's first tourist excursion from Leicester to Loughborough in 1842, a canal and barge representing the introduction of the Soar Navigation and Leicester Navigation in the eighteenth century, factories and sheep for the woollen industry, one of local agriculturalist Robert Bakewell's longhorn cattle, bells to represent the town's bell-founding industry, and the towers, etc. of Loughborough University. The sculptor has also commemorated the year in which she began the piece with an image of the Hale Bop comet. | Subjects: | Ā Sculpture | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Sculptor: Kinloch, Shona Foundry: Powderhall Bronze Foundry | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7890... | Go to resource |
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