The Angel, Olivia, Heidi and Gracie May 2009

This piece of art is going to be our last blog this year because we are going to Germany, so we will not be with Daddy this year for Christmas and we are having Christmas day this week Saturday.

The art is called The Angel because we three kids created it to put on top of the Christmas tree. It took hard work to create, and I thought it was worth it because I made most of it.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the three artists!

The blog is late this week because Daddy is writing it. It should be Gracie's turn but the girls had a school Christmas Fayre to go to, which, obviously, is much more important.

Being the run up to Christmas we decided to do Milton Keynes Christmas art and have chosen the lovely reindeers sculptured from twigs. They are in the in the ring in the shopping centre with the other concrete cows.

I wanted the girls to go in with them to get a better picture, but Olivia refused and did not allow any of us to go in - she is a good honest girl and I am very proud of her!

The girls liked the art which made them even more excited about Christmas.

Triple Starhead 1987-93, Paul Neagu. Furzton Lake

The artists name was Paul Neagu and he was born in Romania. He died in 2004.

This sculpture has been seen outside the British High Commission in Canada and also at Goodwood.

The sculpture represents shape of a shooting star.

Some other artworks made by the artist that we chose were Starhead which was made in 1992 and the second one was Wake which was made in 1992. Both of these share the star theme.

Unknown, The Vision Complex, Witan Gate, Milton Keynes

I called this piece of art the Waterball because we don't know the name.
The Waterball was found behind sainsburys in the Vision building.
It was found by daddy who was cycling on the red way cycling path.

We liked the Waterball because it was nice and shiny but we didn't like it being wet!

The orange wall reflects onto the shiny surface which makes me feel that sainsburys is near.

By Olivia

AFTER POMPEII, AFTER HIROSHIMA, AFTER, AFTER……, Edna Eguchi 2009

The artists name is called Edna Eguchi and she came from Japan.
The art was made in 2009.

This piece of art represents the remains of peoples lives after the destruction of their city.
The grey paint represents the dust covering what was left after the city had fallen.
This piece of art looked very strange in the green park, but we liked it anyway.

The Space Between: Eilis O'Connell 1992

Eilis O'Connell made this sculpture in 1992.

Other pieces include Carapace, which was made in 1999 and Unfold, made in 2001.

We chose this sculpture today because we could not find the sculpture that we wanted, which was in front of the hockey stadium.

We liked this sculpture because you could stick you head through it and your body. We didn't like where it had graphite all over it.

By Heidi

Essence by Wendy Taylor, 1982

This sculpture is called Essence and was made in 1982. It is made out of bronze. It can be seen in Milton Keynes in the Silbury Boulevard . Wendy Taylor has been creating many different sculptures since the 1960's.

Every time we pass this sculpture on the way into town I remind Daddy that we should photograph it as I think it is a good sculpture to sit in. The last few times we have passed it, the weather was raining so we could not sit in it like I wanted to.
By Olivia

Non-Fiction and Reference 1988

This piece of art was made by two different people called Boyd and Evans and it is in the library.

It has lots of colours and I think that it shows that they like colours. They put a lot of effort into the painting. It took about six months to plan and a year to paint, and it took even longer to dry!

It was a massive painting and I think it was made to look different to other paintings because it is bigger than other paintings that I have seen and it has lots of colour. We enjoyed looking at it.

The Object: Dhruva Mistry, 1995-7

The man that made the sculpture was Indian and he was a designer and a very good one too. His name is Dhruva Mistry. It is made of metal and you can slide down in the middle of the sculpture. It is smooth and slippery.

We chose the sculpture because it looked very very nice and we wanted to take a photo to put it on the internet to show the people. Today is Diwali. Diwali is all about celebrating a light. A man and a woman that were sent out of there city and then returning to it. Everybody lit lanterns and candles. The artist is Indian so we thought it was a good idea.

It took ages to get there because we did not know where to go to find it. We thought it was in the park but it was outside the art gallery. We liked to run up and down the hills in the park and scrunch all the leaves under our feet. The sculpture is behind Milton Keynes Gallery, towards Campbell Park.

Gracie said "I liked it when I slid down" and Olivia said "I thought the sculpture did not look anything like a person"


This is a picture of me (Heidi) holding my candle.

The Whisper 1984

The Whisper
Andre Wallace

This sculpture is of two ladies whispering on a railing outside the library (it was all wet.)

A lot of the other artworks made by the artist Andre Wallace are of unusual things that I don't reconise, but daddy thinks that it is abstract.

By Olivia

Concrete Cows

This is me with the concrete cows. Any blog about Milton Keynes' art would not be complete without a picture of the cows. These cows were created by a lady called Liz Leyh, who came from Canada and worked as an artist in residence in 1978 when Milton Keynes was very young.

I want to be an artist too

This is my sisters.

Daddy helped me write this but I did a lot of the spelling and typing!

SITTING ON HISTORY

The sculpture is made by Bill Woodrow purchased by London and Amsterdam Properties and made in London. The picture was made by my dad and his three daughters called Olivia, Heidi  and Gracei. The sculpture is of a book and is in Millton Keynes, in an inside market. The sculpture was made out of metal and people can sit on it, so thats why people like it so much. Written by Heidi.

Diane Maclean: WINGS - XSCAPE (2000)

Olivia, Heidi and Gracie at the XSCAPE Snow Dome in Milton Keynes.

The Wings is a sculpture made by Diane Maclean. Diane Maclean has made many sculptures for instance Colour of Wind and The Time of Light. The Colour of Wind was made in 2003. The Time of Light was made in 1998.

 These pictures are me Olivia the oldest of us three.

My two sisters are called Heidi (the middle one), and Gracie the youngest of the three of us.

Diane Maclean designed these sculptures to be very random. They are made of metal and very big.