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Basket #7. Oxley Bank (2004)
Oxley Bank, on the walking route to Longside
Since their artistic collaboration began in 1992, Winter/Hörbelt have developed many sculptures that are also structures where people can meet.
Basket #7. Oxley Bank is a two-storey steel pavilion on a high ridge of the Longside valley, providing shelter, rest and spectacular views across the landscape. The Bretton Estate was designed to incorporate a series of viewing points and follies, only a few of which remain.
Winter/Hörbelt have taken this historical precedent and at the same time opened up a stunning walking route to Longside Gallery. Constructed from double-layered steel mesh, from a distance Basket #7. Oxley Bank appears to be alternately solid and semi-transparent: from inside looking out it both offers and slightly obscures the view, and becomes a place for reflection and rest.
Basket #7. Oxley Bank is so called because it has been erected previously in six places around the world and remains on loan after the Winter/Hörbelt Longside exhibition of 2004.
The artists have completed many commissions internationally, including works for the 1997 Münster Sculpture Project, Germany and the 1999 Venice Biennale.
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