Mother and Child
Mother and Child

© the artist. Image credit: Gordon Baird / Art UK

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Previously sited at the Falkirk Wheel (the current images depict the works at this location), the collection includes 12 sculptures of animals and humans hand carved into rough-hewn rocks by the artist over period of 23 years. They include: 'Elephant Family', 'Child Pieta', 'Gethsemane 2020', 'Heavy Horse and Foal', 'Flight into Egypt', 'Vulture and Carcass', 'Gorilla Family', 'Mother and Child', 'Ox', 'Bison', 'Dung Beetle', and 'Boy with Calf'. The artist worked with Whiskybroker on the siting of the sculptures at Creetown Whisky Bond.
Title

Mother and Child

Date

1991

Medium

granite

Accession number

FK1_GB_S001_003

Acquisition method

placed by the artist

Work type

Sculpture

Custodian

Whiskybroker Limited

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Access note

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Located at

Whiskybroker Limited, Barholm Works, Creetown

DG8 7EN

Set in a designated sculpture area, at the entrance of the Whiskybroker facility.