The Empty Pedestal

£225.00

 

Description

The empty pedestal of the William Huskisson statue on Princes Road. Huskisson was MP for Liverpool 1823-30. In 1830 he became the world’s first ever passenger casualty during the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester Railway after he ignored warnings not to walk on the line and was killed by a passing train. In 1982 his statue was attacked by rioters and since then his pedestal has sat empty. In the background is the chapel for the deaf, which is slipping into ruin.

Alexis Butterfield

Alexis is a designer with a lifelong love of buildings and history. His work draws inspiration from the everyday historic buildings and places around him, particularly within his adopted city of Liverpool.

“My artwork is about ways of seeing and valuing the everyday past that surround us. I believe historic places and buildings are not neutral objects, from the time of their creation to the present day. They can have particular and elusive qualities that I want to capture through my drawing”

Alexis works with mixed-media drawing including use of wax resists to create surfaces with sharp contrasts of tone and texture. They represent a highly personal, emotional, intellectual, and graphic response to the personality of buildings and sense of place.

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Dimensions 37 × 27 cm
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