Gormley Loves Leith
June 27, 2010 by
Ally On Saturday, our We Love Leith guided bike ride set off with a mission - to seek out all of the Antony Gormley "6 Times" sculptures that have recently been installed along the Water of Leith between the Modern Art Gallery and Ocean Terminal. Despite the fact that the sculptures had only been in for a few weeks, it didn't take long for someone to add a red bikini to the Stockbridge one. We were interested to see what else we'd find - and it seemed that lot's of other people had had the same idea as we met lot's of other folk along the river busy Gormley hunting too.
The first one we found was the one at Bonnington. It had been adorned with a bath tub.
We almost cycled straight past the next one, which is in St Marks Park.
Imagine our surprise when we got to Stockbridge to discover one wearing a We Love Leith T-shirt! We had no idea that news of our arrival would be greeted with such a public display of affection from the residents of Stockbridge.
After Stockbridge, we had a bit of a hill climb up to the modern art gallery. Again - the Gormley was wearing a cycle helmet when we got there. How did they know we were coming? Or were they just worried for that particular sculptures safety - given how he's somewhat unfortunately embedded up to his waist in tarmac?
It was back down the hill to the Water of Leith to catch our fifth Gormley. This is the one at Bells Weir.
Then, it we did a big loop back around the north Edinburgh cycle path to bag our sixth and final sculture which is at the end of disused pier in Leith Docks.
Have you been Gormley hunting yet? Which is your favourite one?
Everyone agreed at the end of the ride that 'themed' rides were a good thing - so if you have any ideas for our next ride, then please do let us know in the comments below.
Thanks to Richard Cross for taking these great photos. You can see some more of the ride to the Greener Leith photo pool on Flickr.
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Reader Comments (1)
Be on the lookout for an artist posing as a nature lover. He is clearly not!
If you don't believe me then may I suggest that you get in contact with your fellow trees living in close proximity to the Angel of the North statue. Those brave trees have for some years, been trying valiantly but in vain to cover up the antics of his "Gateshead Flasher", thereby trying their best to save the embarrassment and blushes of the human population living close by.
Now this nature hater has ordered the local authority to destroy those trees so that he can again, admire his work of art whenever he is passing by it on a train.
It is clear that he and the local authority in question do not care for your great help in the reduction of the human population's carbon footprint thereby saving the Earth's atmosphere.
Message ends.