Christmas Cracker - Shopping Center

It is Christmas time.

This picture is of us in front of a Christmas cracker. We were standing in a cafe. We were at the top of the cafe. And the cracker was massive.

By Gracie May

‘River of Light’ 2010 Vanessa Dell, (Lead Artist), Bletchley Leasure Centre

This piece of art is called River Of life. This art is of a river going into light. The river represents leisure and fun because in the olden days people did not have swimming pools, so instead they went swimming in rivers. It is made out of fiber-optic, marballs, stone and paint.

We saw this this art out-side the Bletchley Leisure Center and we thought it would look good for our website.

I think the snow looks really nice and we want more of it.

By Heidi

Unknown, Sherwood Drive, outside Challange House

The sculpture that we photographed this week is like anther sculpture that we have seen and plan to photograph. I think that the two sculptures are by the same artist, but I could not find any information about today's sculpture on the Internet. The two sculptures look alike because they both have steps leading up to the top and I think they look like the steps up to a climbing frame. All three of us wanted to climb it but it was wet.

The two sculptures are different because the sculpture we have photographed today is orange and the sculpture that we have seen is white. The white sculpture is by Bernard Scottlander and we have photographed two other sculptures by him which are in the same place as the white one. By Olivia

Fireworks, Bletchley Park. Nov 6

There were lots of fireworks. They were big. It was a day after fireworks night that it happened.
I think that the fireworks were not art because art does not go in the air.

By Gracie

2MS series No 4: Bernard Schottlander, 1968-70 Public Gardens, Witan Gate

This sculptures name is 2MS series No 4 and is in Witan Gate in the Public Gardens. It is made by an artist called Bernard Schottlander. It is made out of Painted Steel.

The artist has done many other sculptures including the red sculpture made out of the same materials that is called 3B series No 2. It is the second sculpture from Bernard Schottlander that we have photographed. There is another artwork at the same place painted white that we will photograph soon.

The unusual thing about this sculpture is that when you look from different angles it looks like it is another sculpture.

By Heidi

Embrace: John Wragg, 1966 Grafton Park

Happy 50th Blog Entry

This sculpture is called Embrace and the artist who made the sculpture is called John Wragg.

My opinion of the sculpture is that it was dirty and could of been a bit cleaner.
I think where the sculpture was placed was great because you could see the sculpture from the road.

I think the sculpture looks like a an electricity power maker where it goes in one way and then flows into the ground. The gap at the top in the middle makes the electricity look like you can see it flow. Dad says I am thinking of a spark gap.

The sculpture was first placed in King's road in London. It had been vandalized many times. Sainsbury decided to buy it and they have put it in Grafton Park.
By Olivia

It's our 50th blog entry today. Hip hooray.

Great - Olivia xx

Its great - Heidi X

Fabulous xxx - Gracie

Congratulations and well done girls - You have all amazed me with your excellent blog. Good luck for your next 50 entries - Dad xxx

3B series No 2: Bernard Schottlander, 1968-70 Public Gardens, Witan Gate

This sculpture is orange-red and it was wet at the time we went. I think it looks a bit like a symbol because it is in the shape of a M when you look from a angle. When I was there I thought that the area that the sculpture was in looked like a maze because it has lots of tall bushes and with lots of bunches of trees that were tiny and dotted around.

Bernard Scottlander was the man who made this sculpture, and was born in Germany died in 1999.    

By Heidi

Bounding Bull, Dominic Benhura, 2005, MK Open university

The artist Dominic Benhura was born in 1968 in Murewa.
What I thought was interesting about the bull was that a bull doesn't usually have a hump so it makes the bull look like it has a seat on the back .
I like the way that Dominic has contrasted the colours so that it looks like he has made patches for the bull.

Olivia

Lights, The Hub - Unknown

We photographed this art on Friday on the way to Daddies house.

We took this picture because it was of lights and it needed to be dark to see them.

Daddy sat on the floor with bare arms in the cold. Olivia and Heidi were cold and wanted to keep their hoods on.

I think lights being art weird.

By Gracie

Obelisk, Higrove hill, Loughton

This is a picture of us standing in front of an obelisk. It is a narrow and four sided sculpture, tapering and ending in a pyramid like shape at the top of it.

We came across the obelisk when we went for a bike ride a couple of months ago.

After we had photographed the sculpture we went to a really good park which had lots of good things to play on.

Goose Sculpture, Unknown, Bletchley Park

This picture is of us in Bletchley park with a goose sculpture. The writing below the goose says "The geese who laid the golden eggs and never cackled" and was written by a wartime prime minister called Winston Churchill.

The geese represents the Bletchley park code breakers, and the golden eggs represent the German secrets that they kept.

Learning Together: Ray Castell 2009. Open University Campus - Walton Hall

This sculpture was made from rock called marble. I like this sculpture because I like the feel of it.

By Gracie.

Circle of Light: Liliane Lijn, 1980 Midsummer Arcade

This sculpture is called Circle Of Light.

We decided we should photograph this sculpture because it was the near and because it was the raining. The sculpture is in the Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre.

To take the picture with me and my sisters, we had to stand next to the wind chimes and our dad sat on the floor.

We had a big big break in the holidays because we went on our holidays to Swanage first, then Devon then Germany.

By Heidi

Equatorial Sundial, Wendy Taylor 1981-82. Cable & Wireless, Bletchley

This the sculpture is called the Equatorial Sundial . It was designed by Wendy. Their is also a sundial in London but it is a bit different to the Equatorial Sundial it is called the Timepiece.
I thought it looked like a satellite.

Wendy Taylor has made Timepiece, the Compass bowl and the Opus and also she has designed many more.
We have photographed the Octo and Essence and the Equatorial Sundial which was also made by Wendy Taylor.

We asked the security wether we could photograph the sundial because it was on private property.

By Olivia

Church Cross: Alan Evans, 1991 Church of Christ the Cornerstone

This piece of art is on the top of the church.

To get us in the picture we stood on a curvy bench and it helped a lot because we had taken the picture so that our heads were next to the art.

I don't think it is art on the top of a church because it is more like a cross.

The Meeting: Nicolas Moreton, 1995 City Square, outside Marks and Spencer

This sculpture was outside the Milton Keynes shopping center. We had noticed that it was shaded behind the bush of flowers.

The sculpture was made out of stone and there was also little golden bits made from gold paint. We knew it was not real gold because it would cost millions of pounds if it was. The sculpture was Egyptian Hieroglyphs. In the circle there was North East South West and the sculptures were pointing at the South direction.
By Heidi

Gnomon (Shadow Caster): Peter Bowker, 1994. Campbell Park

This sculptures is in Campbell park on the cricket pitch. It looks like a wicket for cricket, with a ball on the wicket saying that the player is out.
I thought that the sculpture was dirty and could of been a bit cleaner.
I think the sculpture was in a good place because everybody can see it.
The wicket legs are straight and round but these were not.
There were seats on the grass and they were very steep but we ran down them anyway.

By Olivia

Unknown, Willen Lakes

The sculpture looked like a mermaid on a seat. There was lots of bird poo on the ground.

We were there because we had gone to the park and we are going to go to our summer fair straight after swimming, so we choose do it at Willen lake.

At Willen lakes there is a park, lake, wind surfing club, a fun fair, pub, bird poo, geese and ducks.

It was fun!

By Gracie

Vox Pop (The Family): John Clinch, 1988. Queen's Court

On Saturday the girls photographed the newly re-opened Queens's Court eating area in the shopping centre.

They seemed to like the art because they could climb on it and Heidi even wanted to climb the larger parts - a natural monkey!

Daddy is writing due to a fun packed weekend including a Father's Day visit to Nan and Gramps.

O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast: Ronald Rae, 1984. Milton Keynes Railway Station

We first discovered this sculpture when we went on a bike ride. On our way back we saw it.
I think it is meant to be two people hugging from the cold. It was as if they were hugging because they were in a open area.
The Artist was called Ronald Rae. In 1984 his location outside the railway station was granted.

By Heidi

Unity, Dominic Walpole 1993 - Milton Keynes college

This sculpture is called 'Unity' and the artist that made it was called Dominic Walpole.

 It was meant to be three arms holding a big ball. I thought it looked like a spider with the legs and the ball in the middle. The ball in the middle was reflected on the sun, I know that because you can see your self in it. It was shaped like a rocket but the top was like a spiders body.

When we were looking for it, Olivia saw 'Unity' and showed the others where it was. It was made out of we think Mettle or Bronze. We had to stand behind the pole. Daddy took a picture facing the ball at the top with our reflection in it,when I saw the photograph of our reflection on the ball I thought it looked a bit weird.

By Olivia and Heidi

Clock, Unknown. Milton Keynes shopping center

The clock looked like a giants clock because of it's size. The clock itself did not look really like a clock because it didn't have an outline, it only looked like a clock with the face of the clock and the strings coming out of the bottom.

As you walk past the clock you wouldn't realizes it was a clock until you looked up. When we were photographing the clock Daddy had to lie on the floor to get our heads in the picture.

I would recommend this sculpture to someone else because sculptures are the best!

Olivia

Roman mosaic - Unknown, Shopping Center

Daddy is writing today because the three girls were quite busy yesterday, one of whom was building a bear called Rosie, who is hidden in the box being held in the picture.

The artwork is a mosaic made by some Romans a long time ago and is displayed in the shopping center. I am not sure exactly where in Milton Keynes there was a Roman Villa, of which this section of floor was removed.

Gracie was given a magnetic mosaic set for her birthday, so I am looking forward to seeing more mosaics in the future.

The Dad

The Presentation: Allan Sly, 2001 outside John Ormond House, Silbury Boulevard

We were surfing the internet for a sculpture and I remembered that Daddy had said that we hadn't seen this sculpture so I suggested to him that we should choose this one. This was our first sculpture by Allan Sly. We had to walk miles to get to the sculpture.

The man in the sculpture looked as if he was explaining something to the lady out of his book, perhaps he was presenting something to her. I also thought that the man was explaining the building behind the sculpture.

Daddy thought the lady in the sculpture looked like somebody we know and I agreed.

I think that this sculpture looked kind of funny because there was a gap between the two people so you can look though it. I don't think the sculpture looks very nice because of all the cob webs on it.

Solar Square 24 Hour Clock, Unknown

Well Olivia said,"as we drove past on our way into town to go swimming I spotted a sculpture, at first Daddy didn't believe me because Heidi had only just thought that a wind mill on a school field was a sculpture."

This sculpture is a sun dial the sun gives it electricity and the sundial gives the electricity to the school.

Because the suns highest temperature is 15.000,000f it gives the sundial it's heat waves which then turns into electricity for the school.

I liked the sundial because it looked like a slide which was really quite cool!

The Conversation: Nicolas Moreton, 1995 outside M&S

When we got to our next sculpture we were quite surprised because it had a man we think and a lady with no clothes on. They were sitting on a huge block of stone with Golden fish. I thought they were talking to each other.

On the way there I saw something and it looked like a sculpture. So I said” Daddy look what’s that?” So we went to look to see if we could take a picture of it. But we ended up driving the car round in circles. Eventually we noticed that it was in a school playground for some reason.  


By Heidi

High Flyer: Philomena Davis, 1989 Queens Court

Philomena Davis, chose three sculptures to do with the same thing but has given the sculptures different names like: Flying carpet and Dream Flight.
The girl in the sculpture was throwing a kite up into the air with the wind blowing it at the same time.

I don't think the sculpture was in a good place because there were trees behind it and Daddy had trouble finding the right angel to photograph us.

Behind the High flyer were were some dark plants and behind those were some quite tall dark trees.