Sculpture trail puts Scraptors in the frame

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Thursday, September 22, 2011
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This year has proved to be a busy one for West Cranmore sculptor Fiona Campbell, and September has been no exception, with no fewer than three exhibitions.

She currently has work on show at Stoberry Park, in Wells, and at the National Trust's Stourhead Gardens, and has another exhibition starting at the end of the month.

As well as commissions, her work has been shown throughout 2011, including at the Bridgwater Arts Centre, the Blue Cedar Gallery in Glastonbury and Millfield School's Atkinson Gallery Summer Show, in which she was awarded a prize for her steel and wire sculpture Nestling Cocoon.

This year Fiona formed the Scraptors group with artists Paul Boswell, Rachel Macleay and Anthony Wilson.

The Scraptors specialise in making sculptures from pieces of scrap sourced from skips, roadsides and recycling yards and together they installed a sculpture trail at Stourhead National Trust Estate, with more than 70 pieces, related to Stourhead's history, wildlife and mythology.

For the trail, called Beyond the Garden Gate, Fiona created a huge scrap steel heron taking off from the lake and a series of large colourful steel and wire insects, including a giant 5-metre recycled spider.

There are also a scrap steel chameleon with an outer skin woven with wire and bottle tops, who crouches on a huge mossy dead tree overlooking the lake and an exotic starfish fungus.

The trail is opening until September 30, during normal opening hours at Stourhead Gardens, near Mere.

Fiona is exhibiting with four other artists at Stoberry Park, in Wells, as part of Somerset Art Weeks and the National Garden Scheme. The garden is open daily, except for Mondays and Thursdays, 11am to 6pm, until October 2.

At the end of the month, the busy sculptor has an exhibition in Queen's College, Taunton. The Quartz Festival Art Exhibition starts on September 29 and continues to October 8.

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