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Redcar
(Redcar and Cleveland) North Yorkshire Yorkshire & Humberside High Street East / Esplanade |
Cinema Centenary sculpture |
John Clinch
1997 |
Painted steel plate sculpture: arranged in a ring around a curl of film and a seagull are figures representing Redcar's history with links to the sea, the local Regent cinema and two local heroes, Captain Cook and Gertrude Bell. It is one of two works designed by Clinch for Redcar's celebration of 100 years of British Cinema (the first is here). The sculptor felt seriously ill while working on it and the sculpture was completed by two artists and a blacksmith.
 Lifeboatman |
 Captain James Cook, (Marton, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire 1728 - Hawaï 1779), British explorer, navigator and cartographer, famous because of his three voyages to the Pacific Ocean (Wikipedia). (his sister and father have Redcar connections) |
 Pirate with parrot, hook, eye-patch and peg-leg. |
 Gertrude Bell on a camel (Washington New Hall, Durham, 1888 - Baghdad 1926), English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist; she spent her early childhood in Redcar (Wikipedia). |
 Mermaid and film strip. |
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