Antony Gormley's Another Place
Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures
spread out along three kilometers of the foreshore, stretching
almost one kilometre out to sea. Contractors spent three weeks
lifting the figures into place and driving them into the beach on
the-metre-high foundation piles.
The artwork has been brought to the area by South Sefton
Development Trust, a new organisation set up by South Sefton
Partnership to continue its regeneration work in the area.
The project has received support from Mersey Waterfront
programme, the Northwest Regional Development Agency, the Mersey
Docks and Harbour Company and the Arts Council. The project
is also included in the
'Welcome to the North'
Programme, a Public Art Initiative funded by the
Northern Way.
Development Trust chiefs say that Another Place has already
attached a huge amount of interest in the area with large numbers
of people - including families and school parties - visiting the
beach to see the statues.
In addition, the artwork has
generated extensive coverage of South Sefton in both the press and
broadcast media.
The Another Place figures - each one weighing 650 kilos - are
made from casts of the artist's own body and are shown at different
stages of rising out of the sand, all of them looking out to sea,
staring at the horizon in silent expectation.
The work is seen as a poetic response to the individual and
universal sentiments associated with emigration - sadness at
leaving, but the hope of a new future in another place.
The artwork is being exhibited in the UK for the first time.
It has been previously been seen in Cruxhaven in Germany, Stavanger
in Norway and De Panne in Belgium. In November 2006 the statues
were expected to move to New York but after a successful appeal
they will now permanently remain.
To celebrate the permanent completion of Another Place an
amateur photography competition took place at the beginning of
2009. Over 300 entries were received and after a day of judging the
winners and runners up were invited to Sefton
Council office in Bootle to receive their prizes.
Directions to Antony
Gormley's Another Place
By public transport:
Crosby Beach is well served by three local train stations;
Hall Road, Blundellsands and Crosby, and Waterloo. Trains run
approximately every 15 minutes on the MerseyTravel Northern Line.
Connections to national rail services and other regional services
can be made at Liverpool Lime Street and Hunts Cross.
- From Hall Road Station: With the train station on your right
hand side walk down Hall Road West until it bends 90° to the left,
on the bend there is an access road that goes to the beach, past
the Coastguard Station.
- From Blundellsands Station: On the opposite side of the railway
tracks to the ticket office, the Southport train side, walk down
Blundellsands Road West to the end, a short footpath leads to the
beach. Approximately 5/10 minutes.
- From Waterloo Station: Walk down South Road with the station on
your left hand side. At the end of South Road, cross over the road
and walk down the paved footpath between two parks and follow the
footpath which runs between the two lakes to the beach.
Approximately 10/15 minutes.
For further information, including bus time tables, and a
travel planner visit
MerseyTravel, Enter ‘South
Road, Waterloo, Liverpool' as the destination if you are using the
travel planner.
By car:
The easiest route is to arrive on either the M57 or M58
motorways which both end at the same point, Switch Island. From
here follow signs to ‘All Docks' on the A5036, continue to follow
the A5036 until you reach a roundabout under a flyover with signs
to Crosby and the A565. Turn right at the roundabout following the
signs to Crosby and A565. You will join up with A565 but stay in
the left hand lane. At the first set of traffic lights turn left
into Cambridge Road, there is a brown tourist sign, ‘Antony
Gormley's Another Place' for the statues at this junction. Drive
straight along this road at the end of which there are
two car parks
adjacent to the marine lake. The beach and statues are a 5 minute
walk from the car park.
Last Updated on 2/1/2010