Crosby Beach Antony Gormley statues "Another Place" 130712

Crosby Beach Antony Gormley statues

"Another Place" 130712
Crosby beach close to Liverpool

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Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life size figures spread out along three kilometres of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea. Contractors spent three weeks lifting the statues into place and driving them in to the beach on the metre high foundation piles.

The earthwork was brought to the area by South Sefton Development Trust, an organisation set up by the South Sefton Partnership to continue its regeneration work in the area.

The Another Place figures - each one weighs 650 kilos- are made form casts of the artists 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 expectations.

The work is seen as a poetic response to the individual and universal sentiments associated with emigration - sadness at leaving but the hope of new future in another place.

The artwork was previously displayed in Cruxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium. In Novermber 2006 the statures were expected to move to New York but it was later decided that they would remain on Crosby Beach.