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Merseyside North West England King's Parade (L3)
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Time and Tide |
Philip Bews and Diane Gorvin
1993 |
Group of sculptures of the bronze figures on blue painted steel columns and a frieze relief in glass-reinforced concrete painted in acrylic and bolted onto the curved dock wall.
The figures on the steel columns are ship repairers 'of an earlier age': a riveter wielding a hammer and a standing figure hauling a taut rope.
 A riveter wielding a hammer. |
 Figure hauling a taut rope. |
The frieze consists of forty-six one metre square panels. Forty-four panels consist of five different panels repeated. At each end are inscription panels and identical half-panels decorated with life-casts taken from employees of the Customs and Excise Building.
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 Text panel and half-panel. |
 Woman in a wheelchair operating a computer, |
 Ship on two panels. |
 Ship builders. |
 Ship builder. |
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time and tide philip bews 1993 the sculpture takes as a theme the past and future uses of queens dock. these are represented by images of ship repair and modern computer users. bronze ship repair workers are set on steel columns which evoke a ship's prow and boiler section. the relief panels on this original dock wall were made by diane gorvin. |
time and tide philip bews 1993 co-sponsored by: hm customs and excise merseyside development corporation psa building management manchester psa projects wimpey construction uk north west arts board the esmée fairbairn foundation the foundation for sport and the arts bucknall austin plc |
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