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Antony Gormley's Another Place

Iron Man on BeachAnother 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.
 
 
Further information is available from the South Sefton Partnership.
 
 

Gormley StatuesDirections 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