A few of the local Public Art Works

The SuperLambBanana
Taro Chiezo, 1998
Location: Tithebarn Street

The SuperLambBanana was the original work of a Japanese artist Taro Chiezo.
It was commissioned for the Art Transpennine Exhibition of 1998 in celebration of the reopening of Tate Liverpool. This colourful cross banana-lamb sculpture is about 15 feet tall , Chiezo himself made only a four-inch model, and it was up to local artist Andy Small to recreate it on a scale of 1:50 , using a wire-mesh frame supporting a concrete shell.

The unusual artwork was created to warn of the dangers of genetically modified food, whilst being appropriate to the city of Liverpool due to the port's rich history in the trade of lambs and the import of bananas.

Penelope
Jorge Pardo, 2004
Location: Wolstenholme Square , Rope Walks

Penelope, is a 10-metre-tall structure of twisting steel stalks and brightly coloured, illuminated Plexiglas spheres

Created by Cuban-born artist Jorge Pardo, who was commissioned to make the site-specific sculpture by the Liverpool Rope Walks Partnership. The project was organised by Christoph Grunenberg, director of Tate Liverpool

The stalks reflect the historical significance of the Rope Walks area, where in past centuries, the long ropes of ships were laid out in the streets to be plaited. Penelope refers to the Homer’s Odyssey, in which Ulysses’ wife, Penelope, faithfully awaited her husband’s return from the Trojan war. She put off numerous suitors by saying she had to finish weaving a robe, unravelling her day’s work each night.

Turning the Place Over
Richard Wilson, 2007
Location: Cross Keys House, a former Yates’ Wine Lodge 37-41 Moorfields

Turning the Place Over is artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool ’s city centre literally inside out. One of Wilson ’s very rare temporary works, Turning the Place Over colonises Cross Keys House. It is controlled by a light sensor and will run during daylight hours.
The artwork consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of the and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing ‘window’, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours.

Roman Standard
Tracey Emin, 2005
Location: The Oratory Gates, next to The Liverpool Anglican Cathedral

Tracey Emin’s sculpture Roman Standard, commissioned by the BBC as part of the art05 festival and Liverpool 's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008, is a tribute to the legendary Liver Bird.

It features a small bird atop a four metre high bronze pole and stands guard at the gates of The Oratory, next to the Anglican Cathedral on Upper Duke Street .

The location for the piece was chosen by Tracey who was attracted by the neo-Roman feel of the city's architecture and the Victorian romanticism conjured up by the site.

The pole is centred behind the Oratory gates - viewed directly from the front, the bird disappears and only reappears if the viewer moves left or right.

Another Place
Antony Gormley, 2004
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 artwork has been brought to the area by South Sefton Development Trust with support from Mersey Waterfront programme, the Northwest Regional Development Agency, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and the Arts Council.

The figures - each one weighing 650 kilos - are made from casts of the artist's own body and are shown at different stages of rising out of the sand, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation.

It has been previously been seen in Cruxhaven in Germany , Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium .