This week at the Community Shop there is an exhibition by students at Sunningwell School of Art. The art on display is from one of their many course – Diana Bell’s Course “A New Focus on Painting” where students are encouraged to explore more abstract art.
So you will be very welcome to look round all this week at the exhibition (Monday, 3rd February to Saturday, 8th February 2014, 10:00am-4:00pm.)
I gather that Diana Bell did the big boot and other sculptures at Kingsoak, Abingdon.
Sorry to be thick(!) – but where is Kingsoak, please?
John
I didn’t know it was called Kings Oak but if you walk down Penlon Place (off Radley Road opposite St Edmunds Church) and keep going downhill you will see the big boot – and other sculptures – also just before you get to them, on the corner where there is a turn-off to the right, there are some nice slate carvings on the ground.
You can also get there from the footpath that runs behind Waitrose towards Audlett Drive – last cut-through on the left (I think).
Each time I pass the big boot, coat and sack I wish that there was a small board that gave a little information to passersby about the sculptures – what the significance is and who the sculptor was. As I think there must be a historical connection with local industries perhaps the Historical Society or Friends of Abingdon could look into the placing of such a board . . . .
There is a leaflet on the town website.
http://www.abingdon.gov.uk/discover-abingdon/public-art-abingdon-thames