Poems for TRAIL 2018: The sculptures

Here's the map of the sculptures on TRAIL 2018
Y may like to send your own photo(s) of your sculpture subject with your poem(s)

Flowerbed map TRAIL 2018

Deborah Frith
Hedgerow
Women's Work

Using recycled steel car body panels, mostly wings. It takes a form similar to a corset in shape. Using an English wheel on some pieces gives it a texture like gathered silk, hammering others to give the metal a different texture like cloth. The original colour of the car wings remains in place. Then I will use rivets and stainless twisted wire to lace/sew the piece together onto a metal shape similar to the taylors dummy on the examples page attached. This is designed to create a relationship to patchwork quilting, sewing and darning. I will use recycled wire and car parts but will have to use a made wire frame to fit it to.
For this piece I want to use ‘women’s work’ as a title. This is because I had feedback that the public was surprised that ‘Transcription’ was made by a woman, which made me think of how our gender often defines our working roles; when I was at school it was the boys that were encouraged to do metalwork and woodwork, computer skills such as they were then and, with the recent concentration on how women are still paid unequally, how we haven’t got quite as far as we think. Since it is one hundred years since women were able to vote this year I think it will be an especially apt theme.

When I was putting together the idea of proposal 1 I bought a tailor's dummy with the intent of using it for the structure of the first idea. However when we got it home I realised it wouldn’t be strong enough to support the metal cladding. As a result I would like to enter it as a separate project called ‘Hedgerow’. The plastics situation is gathering momentum and I wanted to put my twopennyworth in and highlight the rubbish we see in the road side and hedgerows. The wire tailor's dummy, a lovely piece on its own, makes a connection of nature as female, a lovely entity, but we take it for granted and abuse it. So I want to take the wire dummy and give it a hawthorne skirt and apply to it found objects from a litterpick on the road, recreating the circumstance where rubbish is a blight wired in to the hawthorne branches. It will stand on hedgerow turf also covered in detritus found at the roadside. I am trying to make a serious point about how we view our roadsides – or not as the case may be when you drive past miles of rubbish at the road side and fail to see it!

Hedgerow

Women's Work

Alison Theaker

TRAIL 2018 Exhibition Piece
Title: Coffee Coral
Description:
Coffee coral was created for our exhibition Sea Sense at Harbour House, Kingsbridge in 2017. The exhibition focussed on beach litter, and particularly plastic waste. Coffee Coral was a response to the many disposable cup lids we found, and to draw attention to the number of outlets still using single-use plastic.
There is a plywood base on which is mounted a plastic drum lid. ‘Growing’ from that are coffee cup lids, mounted on wire cores.

Coffee Coral

Yvonne Lammond Teignmouth Women's Institute
Blue Planet shocked the world last year by exposing the destructive effect of plastic on all marine life.
Teignmouth WI took this as their inspiration for Truly. She is made completely from recycled materials, and the messages she carries in the discarded bottles are our personal pledges to reduce plastic use.
The choices we all make today define our collective future.
(With thanks to TAAG and especially Sam Lock)
Teignmouth WI meets on the second Tuesday of the month (except August) at 7.30 p.m. at The New Road Community Centre, Higher Buckeridge Road, Teignmouth. Visitors are always welcome

TRULY: OUR TURTLELY AWESOME TURTLE

Sam Lock and Amy McCarthy from Teignvironment with Our Lady and St Patrick's Catholic Primary School

‘School of Fish’

Each child from nursery to year 6 made pledges to reduce their use of plastic and ways to make their future cleaner by reducing waste and helping to make cleaner seas.

‘The fish are all swimming together towards the same goal of going plastic free and having a cleaner sea’

School of Fish

Stover School

Our Plastic Planet

Malcolm Curley

Nature’s Nemesis by Malcolm Curley
If this troll-like character seems familiar, perhaps it’s because no voice is louder in denial of the urgency of combating pollution than one particular world leader, whose administration prioritises money-making above saving our planet.
This visualisation of Nature’s nemesis is formed with recycled materials and wears clothes of knotted plastic.

Nature’s Scream by Malcolm Curley
Made of scrap, excess building materials, and old clothes, the inspiration for this sculpture is Edvard Munch’s iconic painting The Scream. I’ve interpreted it to illustrate how I envisage Nature reacting to the emergence of world leaders whose policies are damaging, not saving, our environment.

Malcolm Curley Seal Appeal

Seal Appeal

Seal Appeal

Washed up Whale Fed up on Our Plastic Rubbish
by Ali-Way Scrapstore and Co-ordinBart, Torre Abbey

Moby Sick

When this sculpture was being installed, the name Moby Sick was overheard..........😁

Sam Lock and Amy McCarthy from Teignvironment with Teignmouth Community School
Penelope the Pool Monster
by Teignmouth Community School with Teignvironment artists Sam Lock and Amy McCarthy
An old chicken wire fence, an awful lot of milk bottle tops an a punctured paddling pool have been transformed into this fanciful monster. Our society’s plastic addiction is monsterous, but at least we can create beauty from discarded plastic.

Penelope the Pool Monster

1st Teignmouth Girls' Brigade
Celebrate 125 Years of the Girls Brigade
by 1st Teignmouth Girls’ Brigade
Made from scrap metal.
Girls’ Brigade was formed in Southern Ireland in 1893. In 1965 it amalgamated with the Girls’ Guildry and Girls’ Life Brigade. Our badge contains emblems from all three organisations. Throughout these 125 years girls have learnt about the love of God, skills for living and care of others and the environment.

The Restore (Refurnish) Sculpture Group
Chair Backed Turtle
by The ReStore (Refurnish) Sculpture Group
Volunteers and staff from The ReStore (ReFurnish) have produced a sculpture highlighting the threat to Turtles through pollution and global warming.
Using the items that are unable to be recycled by ReFURNISH to create a sculpture, communicating how plastic pollution and discarded household items that are sent to landfill or burnt can have an effect on the environment and wildlife.

Chair Backed Turtle

Charlotte Yeo
Hope
My sculpture uses the view through the negative space of the circle, to give ‘hope’ of a brighter future beyond the ugly plastic wall. Made from bottles found on beaches, streets and countryside, it shows if we all work together, we can still save our planet from plastic pollution.

I have had great pleasure building the plastic wall for trail art. It has been sad finding so much plastic on streets, beaches and in the country side though. I was amazed to find most of the milk cartons on my street over the last year, after the recycle lorries had left, which is very disappointing.

Hope

Julia Vella
Bee Friendly by Julia Vella
Encourage bees and pollenating insects by growing plants they love. In spring Bluebells, Rosemary and Lungwort, then Aquilegia, Geranium and Foxgloves, finally sunflowers, lavender and hollyhock and listen for the buzz. Bee friendly is made from redundant light fittings, electrical wire and ducting following a complete rewire of our house.

Bee Friendly

The Waitrose Art Collective
Is your diet as rubbish as mine?

Is your diet as rubbish as mine?

Janec van Veen

The Bride

The Bride by Janec van Veen
Local legend claims that the bodies of two lovers were found near this spot, their entwined corpses surrounded by a swirling mass of litter. The cause of death remains a mystery, but legend claims that they had been asphyxiated by The Bride.
She had been watching them as they casually dropped their drinks bottles and polystyrene chip packets, which would no doubt end up being blown into the sea.
‘Enough is enough’ thought The Bride and she swooped down and embraced them with her wings of deathly plastic.

Montgomery Primary School

A Monster Problem
by Montgomery Primary School, Exeter
The children at Montgomery Primary School created their sculpture ‘A Monster Problem’ in response to a clip from Blue planet 2. They were shocked and saddened by the effects plastic pollution in our oceans has on marine wildlife and wanted to create an artwork to raise awareness of this issue.