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- c.1976 - 2016
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- ST/3/17
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- c.1976 - 2001
Sculptures: Black Dome (1986 - present); Fire and Water Boats (1986 - present)
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail Archive
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- c.1976 - 2019
The collection charts the history of the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, located at Beechenhurst Lodge in the heart of the Forest of Dean. This includes both the administrative and artistic processes involved. Formats encompass documents, books and publications, leaflets, drawings, videos, a maquette and other ephemera.
In 1983, following the establishment of a sculpture trail in Exeter Forest, Martin Orrom (Forestry and Environment Officer, Forestry Commission) wrote a brief for the establishment of a sculpture trail in the Forest of Dean. The Elephant Trust provided £2,500 towards the project and in Spring 1984 around 20 artists were invited to visit the site and submit proposals for sculptures. Martin worked alongside Jeremy Rees (Founding Director of The Arnolfini, Bristol) and Rupert Martin (Curator at The Arnolfini). Six artists were chosen and these founding commissions were collectively titled "Stand and Stare":
Peter Appleton - Sound Sculptures
Kevin Atherton - Cathedral
Andrew Darke - Sliced Log Star (Inside Out Tree)
Magdalena Jetelova - Place
David Nash - Black Dome/ Fire and Water Boats
Keir Smith - The Iron Road
The trail was opened on 19 June 1986 by Sir David Montgomery, Chair of the Forestry Commission. By 1988, a second batch of sculptures had been installed including:
Bruce Allan - Observatory
Zadok Ben David - As There Is No Hunting Tomorrow
Miles Davies - House
Ian Hamilton Finlay - Grove of Silence
Tim Lees - The Heart of the Stone
Cornelia Parker - Hanging Fire
Peter Randall-Page - Cone and Vessel
Sophie Ryder - Crossing Place/ Deer/Searcher
Since 1986, 28 sculptures both temporary and permanent have been sited on the Sculpture Trail.
The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust was established in 1988 as a registered charity overseeing the maintenance of the trail and commissioning new works. The trail is owned and managed by The Forestry Commission.
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust
Exhibition booklet for "Loosely Held Grain" by David Nash
- ST/3/17/1
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- c.1976
Held at The Arnolfini gallery, Bristol. Features photographs by Sue Wells
Photocopy of article "Fay's secret forest" by James Belsey
- ST/5/2/3/15
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- (c.1980s) 20 June 1986
Published in the "Evening Post". Discusses photographer Fay Godwin and her work in the Forest of Dean
Photocopy of article "Forest of Dean" by Adrian Knowles
- ST/5/2/3/24
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- (c.1980s) 26 July 1986
Published in "Amateur Photographer". Interviews photographer Fay Godwin
Photocopy of article "The Forest"
- ST/5/2/3/34
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- (c.1980s) 18 July 1986
Published in "Arts Review", author unknown. Discusses the Forest of Dean project
Photocopy of article "Art in the Forest"
- ST/5/2/5/8
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- (c.1980s) July 1988
Published in the "Bristol and Bath Magazine". Discusses Phase II of the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
Document describing Beginner's Way
- ST/1/2/3
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- c.1980s
Possibly written by Martin Orrom. Describes the Forestry Commission's involvement with the establishment of the Grizedale Forest Sculpture Project in 1977 and later Beginner's Way.
Photocopy of newspaper article "On the march to the cutting-edge" by Deanna Petherbridge
- ST/5/2/2/1
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- (c.1980s) 10 September 1985
Published in the Financial Times. Discusses Magdalena Jetelová's residency at the Arnolfini and forthcoming Forest of Dean sculpture project
- ST/5/2/3/1
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- (c.1980s) c.1986
Publication unknown. Discusses the Forest of Dean project
Photocopy of article "Fay Godwin and the Forest of Dean" by Vivien Mackenzie
- ST/5/2/3/3
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- (c.1980s) c.1986
Published in "The Green Book". Discusses Fay Godwin's book "The Secret Forest of Dean" and exhibition "The Forest" at the Arnolfini
Photocopy of article "Fay Godwin, the landscape photographer" by Sue Rushton
- ST/5/2/3/4
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- (c.1980s) c.1986
Published in the "Forest of Dean Mercury". Discusses Fay Godwin's book "The Secret Forest of Dean"
- ST/5/2/3/8
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- (c.1980s) c.1986
Published in "What's On Wye-Dean". Author unknown
Photocopy of article "The Forest Project and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol" by Liz Wells
- ST/5/2/3/29
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- (c.1980s) 1 August 1986
Published in "The British Journal of Photography". Discusses the Forest of Dean project
Photocopy of article"Selling out the public" by Richard Cork
- ST/5/2/3/37
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- (c.1980s) 18 - 25 December 1986
Published in "The Listener". Quotes the Sculpture Trail as "an ambitious scheme in the Forest of Dean, where several young artists were invited to make a variety of works specifically for woodland sites. It was a memorable project... worth repeating"
Photocopy of article "Forest of clean"
- ST/5/2/4/3
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- (c.1980s) 4 January 1987
Published in "The Mail on Sunday", author unknown. Includes photograph of the attempted cleaning of sculpture "Cathedral"
Photocopy of article "Plants, Paths and Poems" by Ian Appleton
- ST/5/2/5/5
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- (c.1980s) June 1988
Published in "Landscape Design". Discusses the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay
Photocopy of document "Stand & Stare" by Jeremy Rees [Director, The Arnolfini]
- ST/1/3/5
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- (c.1980s) 20 June 1985
Discusses the Stand and Stare project to date and the collaboration between The Arnolfini and the Forestry Commission. Also mentions forthcoming gallery exhibition exploring the forest in contemporary art
Photocopy of article "Artists at Work"
- ST/5/2/3/19
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- (c.1980s) July 1986
Published in "Artists Newsletter", author unknown. Discusses the Forest of Dean project
Photocopy of article "Exhibition Review: The Forest of Dean Sculpture Project" by Roger Leigh
- ST/5/2/3/38
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- (c.1980s) Winter 1986
Published in "Landscape Research" volume 11 number 3
Photocopy of article "Forest Workings: Open Air Art in the Forest of Dean" by Clive Caffall
- ST/5/2/4/2
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- (c.1980s) December 1986 - January 1987
Published in "Compass Sport Orienteer". Compares the 1987 British Orienteering Championships [held in the Forest of Dean] to the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail
Photocopy of letter "Sylvan Art"
- ST/5/2/5/3
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- (c.1980s) 3 March 1988
Published in "Country Life" and written by George G Hall. Describes the sculpture "Cathedral"
Photocopy of poem "Back to Nature" by Joyce Latham
- ST/5/2/5/7
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- (c.1980s) 7 June 1988
Publication unknown. Poem about the sculpture "Place" / Giant's Chair
Photocopy of newspaper article "It's a chip off the old block" by David Harrison
- ST/5/2/6/2
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- (c.1980s) 27 July 1989
Published in "Bristol Tonight". Discusses the new Bristol Sculpture Trail at Aston Court
Photocopy of article on the "Forest of Dean project"
- ST/5/2/3/2
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- (c.1980s) c.1986
Published in "Art Monthly". Discusses the 25th anniversary of the Arnolfini and the sculpture project in collaboration with the Forestry Commission
Photocopy of newspaper article "Transistor radios could be no worse" by Edward Phelps
- ST/5/2/3/5
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- (c.1980s) c.1986
Published in the "Bath Evening Chronicle". Discusses the Forest of Dean project exhibition at the Arnolfini, Bristol
Photocopy of article "If you go down to the woods..." by Ann Sheldon
- ST/5/2/3/6
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- (c.1980s) c.1986
Publication unknown. Discusses the collaboration between the Arnolfini and the Forestry Commission
Photocopy of newspaper article "Work in progress in the woods" by William Packer
- ST/5/2/3/7
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- (c.1980s) c.1986
Publication unknown. Discusses the Forest of Dean sculpture project
Photocopy of article "The Forest" by Nigel Frank
- ST/5/2/3/22
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- (c.1980s) 18 July 1986
Published in "Arts Review". Discusses the Arnolfini exhibition "The Forest" and the Forest of Dean Sculpture project
Photocopy of article "'The Forest', Arnatt, Godwin, Rotherstein, Leventon" by Margaret Garlake
- ST/5/2/3/36
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- (c.1980s) October 1986
Published in "Art Monthly". Discusses "The Forest" exhibition
- ST/1
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- 1981 - 2007
Beginner's Way - Exeter Forest
- ST/1/2
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- 1981 - 2007
Beginner's Way was the Exeter Forest sculpture trail, a collaboration between artist Jamie McCullogh and the Forestry Commission, specifically Martin Orrom. The trail opened in 1983.
- ST/1/2/1
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- 1981
Compiled by Jamie McCullough. Includes photocopies of:
Introduction
Letter from Martin Orrom to Jamie McCullough giving agreement in principle for the project
Newspaper article "Beginner's Way Begins"
Descriptions for the trail with photographs
Draft constitution for the Wildharbour Society
- ST/3/24
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- c.1982 - 2013
Slides, booklets, CD-R, flyers, postcards, article and photographs relating to artists who do not have sculptures sited at the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail. Includes covering letters to Martin Orrom. Artists include:
Patrick T Dougherty
Chris Drury
Maria Alvarez Escallon
Andy Goldsworthy
Giles Kent
Ian McKeever
Alvin Paige
Alec Pearson
Paula Rego
Jørn Rønnau
Ulrich Rückrien
Helmut Schmidt
Auke de Vries
Andrew Wood
Sati Zech
Pomona Zipser
Photographs of the sculpture "Stepping Stones" by Jamie McCullough sited on Beginner's Way
- ST/1/2/2
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- c.1983
Includes negative with image of "Stepping Stones" and four other views
Drafts of the outline proposal for the Stand and Stare project
- ST/1/3/1
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- 10 March 1983
Written by Martin Orrom. Includes annotations
Exhibition booklet "Sixty Seasons" by David Nash
- ST/3/17/2
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- 1983
A collaboration between Mostyn Art Gallery, North Wales and Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
"Aspects: A Journal of Contemporary Art"
- ST/5/2/1/2
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- Winter 1983 - 1984
Number 25. Includes article "Nigel Lloyd: Grizedale Sculptor 1983"
- ST/5
- Series
- 1983 - 2019
- ST/1/3
- File
- 1983 - c.1988
Newspaper article "Air on a tree string" by Hugo Davenport
- ST/5/2/1/1
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- 14 August 1983
Published in The Observer. Discusses artist Jamie McCullough and his project with the Forestry Commission and the Arts Council
- ST/5/2
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- 1983 - 2010
- ST/5/2/1
- File
- 1983
- ST/1/1
- File
- 1984 - 1999
File of correspondence regarding the construction and installation of Cathedral
- ST/3/3/1
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- 1984 - 1986
Includes letters between Kevin Atherton and Rupert Martin; Rupert Martin and DIY Plastics Limited; Rupert Martin and Hartley Wood and Company; Rupert Martin and Rod Smith; costings for Cathedral and photocopy of newspaper article about Kevin Atherton and his project with British Rail in Brixton
Colour slides with images of Andrew Darke's sculptures from 1978 - 1983
- ST/3/8/3
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- c.1984
Includes "Shaped Fence No 2" 1978; "Peeled Branch 1" 1981; "Oak Log Fall" 1981; "W Q No 3" 1981; "Sliced Log 2" 1982; "Sliced Log 3" 1982; "Peeled Branch 2" 1982; "Sliced Log 4 (Postland)" 1983; "Fan Log" 1983. Dimensions are recorded on each slide
Photocopy of "Forestry Commission/ Arnolfini/ Elephant Trust background"
- ST/1/1/1
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- (c.1999) 18 August 1984
Possibly written by Martin Orrom. Describes the foundation of the Sculpture Trail
Document by Rupert Martin on "Stand and Stare"
- ST/1/3/3
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- March 1984
- ST/2/5
- Subseries
- 1984 - c.2007
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