Irwell Sculpture Trail

Tickle your fancy | Radcliffe Market Tickle Your Fancy bring an evening of cabaret to Radcliffe Market. Chorlton's favourite variety evening heads North for a night of comedy and music.

Europe's largest public work of art to be unveiled on Belgian motorway in October The 60m roadside steel sculpture by French artist Bernar Venet was rejected by the French government 35 years ago

The first Summer Days of Play went down a storm last weekend with Pop-Up Adventure Play (Radcliffe has since been invaded by cardboard robots!).

Come along this weekend next door to Radcliffe Market for The Circus House Manchester CIC:

Learn all the skills and trickery you’d need to run away with the circus. From acrobatics and juggling to trapeze, you’ll be flying through the air with the greatest of ease in no time.

Summer Days of Play come to Radcliffe! : https://www.facebook.com/events/196165711318775/?event_time_id=196165727985440

Irwell Sculpture Trail updated their address.

Unveiling of the latest sculpture on the Irwell Sculpture Trail - Friday 17 May

Yellow berets at the ready!

Join us for the Victoria Wood Memorial Statue Unveiling celebrations, happening next Friday 17 May.

Gather from 1.45pm at Bury Unitarian Church Gardens - just across from Bury Art Museum and The Fusiliers Museum - for a 2pm start with guest speeches and a specially commissioned live-music performance.

Here’s hoping for good weather!

The Reveal Continues… Spodden Valley Revealed Project Manager, Diana Hamilton, brings us up to date with the latest landscape improvement works.

Irwell Sculpture Trail updated their business hours.

https://www.artsindustry.co.uk/news/1169-a-pause-on-the-trail

A pause on the trail… artsindustry.co.uk

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Irwell Sculpture Trail, Brass Art revisit a miniature 19c bone and ivory pagoda from Bury’s Museum Collection, and return to sites of significance in their collaborative practice. Join them on Saturday 12 May at 2pm in-conversation with Castlefield Gallery, Director Helen Wewiora at Bury Sculpture Centre. http://cargocollective.com/buryartmuseum/Sculpture-Centre-Exhibitions

(Brass Art are Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican.)

The most northerly sculpture on the trail...

The Singing Ringing Tree, a wind powered sound sculpture by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu

Thanks to everyone who came along to the opening of a new sculpture on the trail yesterday!

The new contemporary piece is by Auke de Vries, the Netherlands’ best-known sculptor with a reputation for creating unique and intriguing pieces all over the world – from The Hague and Berlin to Stuttgart and Barcelona.

Guests met the artist at Bury Art Museum and took the East Lancashire Railway to the new stop at Burrs Park to see his sculpture.

Burr’s Country Park is already home to three artworks on the Irwell Sculpture Trail. This latest piece – located on the remains of Burrs Mill - is designed to complement the natural landscape and its former industrial remnants, referring both to the park’s past and future.

The funding for this project has come through S.106 funding, i.e. money paid by developers and allocated to be spent on art in the borough. It is not funded by local council tax payers. With this new addition of a prominent artwork by such a renowned artist, we expect to see further growth in visitor numbers to the site and the local area.

Auke’s commission is part of the new exciting direction and ambition for the park, broadening its uses and audiences with the new East Lancashire Railway station and plans for a Heritage Lottery Bid to further develop the park and its uses.
For more details about the Irwell Sculpture Trail, go to www.irwellsculpturetrail.co.uk

The latest commission is being installed this week at Burrs Country Park. The artist is top Dutch sculptor Auke de Vries. It will be the tallest artwork on the Irwell Sculpture Trail - standing 12 metres high. The official unveiling will be 27th July.

We love seeing great shots of the Singing Ringing Tree. This one from Jon Thompson is a belter. Thanks for sharing Jon.

At the northern end of the Trail - The Singing Ringing Tree

I Am Sean - And This Is The "Singing Ringing Tree", Burnley. To witness a sunset here is truly magical.
All prints for sale with big discounts during June. Visit www.i-am-sean.com. Enjoy! :-)

How Global? International Conference 2016 An international conference exploring new directions in public art collecting. Leading British and international experts, museum directors, academic scholars, artists and curators – some speaking to

Exciting morning planning for the IST 25yr anniversary in 2018!

Sculpture Centre Exhibitions - Bury Art Museum Sculpture Centre Exhibitions 2016 - 2017 Exhibition Talk Saturday 4 February, 3pm, £2 Stephen Walton will be giving a tour and a talk on The ABC of Capitalism on Saturday 4 February. Discover the unique detail behind each artwork and the ...

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This plan would finally open up the Irwell in Manchester city centre A new pedestrian route would run along the bank close to Manchester Cathedral

Auke de Vries Burrs sculpture arrives in Bury.

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Emergency Meadow new addition to Irwell Sculpture Trail A new addition to the Irwell Sculpture Trail is on its way to Bury.

A lovely sunny day - no better time to explore the Sculpture Trail. Pictured: Stone Cycle by Julie Edwards at Burrs Country Park

Thousands of wildflower seeds and 3,5000 snowdrops have arrived from the National Wildflower Centre for for Irwell Sculpture Trail Im looking forward to planting them!

Preparations for the Emergency Meadow Sculpture, the Trail's next commission.

The next commission on the Trail - Hilary Jack's .

About the Trail Winding its way from Bacup to Salford Quays, Irwell Sculpture Trail features over 70 artworks by locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists.