Site Artworks

Grayling

This sculpture is a creative response to Maze Park led by artist Adrian Moule, working with young people from Abingdon and Sacred Heart Primary Schools.

These young people learnt about the industrial and natural history of this reserve, which is home to some seventeen different types of butterfly. 

Adrian said, ‘‘I wanted to capture the animation of the space, seen as empty and serene from a distance, but full of movement if you look at it up close. Marching, crawling, hopping, jumping, swaying, flapping, skittering and flowing…the landscape lives at all times”.  The sculpture tries to include this notion of always being a part of the nature of the space - gently moving with the wind, the butterflies act out the play.

The grayling is a grey/ brown butterfly, a master of camouflaged disguise when it rests with its wings closed, but showing threatening dark eye spots when its wings are open. The Grayling sculpture shows the same spirit of contradiction, celebrating butterflies in steel.


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