2 Stainless Steel Forms with White
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- Type: Sculpture
- Medium: Steel
- Production Date: 1969
- Description: This sculpture was commissioned for the brand new University campus, opened in 1967.
W J Strachan (1984) explained that white was added ‘ to help the eye to separate the rising columns of his sculpture at Southampton, Steel Forms whereas here, it iis added ‘to harmonise with the white building and make
an agreeable contrast with the green lawn.‘
At the press conference held to mark the handing over of the sculpture, Dr T L Cottrell, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University, said: ‘We feel we have a duty to staff and students to provide an environment in which the arts play a full part.
We are spending something in the order of one percent of our capital outlay on the arts. We don‘t think that it is particularly excessive or particularly mean, but we do feel that it is important in our comparatively rural setting that we should provide some of the things which students take for granted in say Glasgow or London. This is the second work the University has specially commissioned, the first being a Mary Martin mural for one of the University dining rooms.‘
The artist, Justin Knowles, said: ‘Stirling University is exceptional in its ready appreciation of the functions of arts as part of the environment.‘ - Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Sculpture Trail
- Related Material: AC/AF/K/3
- Related Material: AC/OF/1969/7
- Accession Number: 1969.7
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
