Another Place by Anthony Gormley

I think this is bloody great. I spoke to an old local fella while I was taking these. I asked wheat he thought of them. He said 'They're rubbish! If they'd been any good, they'd have been nicked by now.'
He explained that they had been made of cheap materials to avoid theft. I thought it might have been more to do with the artist wanting them to age badly. Either way, they are a magnificent site. I arrived at high tide and was there for a couple of hours. In that time, more and more heads, then shoulders, and finally penises(!) emerged from the waves.
If I lived closer, I expect that I'd be there at all hours and in all weathers...

Make yourself at home in the Flickr set with loads more from the same spot.


These spectacular sculptures by Antony Gormley are on Crosby beach. Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometres of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea.
The Another Place figures - each one weighing 650 kilos - are made from casts of the artist's own body standing on the beach, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation.
Having previously been seen in Cuxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium, 'Another Place' is now a permanent feature in the UK, at Crosby Beach.
According to Antony Gormley, Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man's relationship with nature. He explains: The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth's substance. In this work human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet.