Bill & Bob

While walking through Millennium Square, you may be surprised to see some Jack Russell terriers swimming in a puddle.

Painted bronze life-size sculptures by artist Cathie Pilkington, Bill and Bob concentrates on creating the illusion of two real dogs swimming in a puddle of blue rubber.

By making use of humour and illusion, the depicted narratives are called in to question - are Bill and Bob swimming or sinking?

This is Cathie Pilkington’s first commission for a public space and from the outset she was interested in making something very small, which might get overlooked – the antithesis to much Public Art. She also wanted to make something very ordinary.