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Field Visit
Date 28 September 2002
Event ID 616089
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/616089
Poetry bus shelters.
The original bus shelter, erected in December 2000, has poems displayed on the inside of an outsize steel and glass structure. Neil Gillespie was playing with scale in a Duchampian take on the familiar found object.
The second shelter, erected in March 2002, is very similar and across the road from the first.
The third shelter, by Linda Tolmie, erected in February 2003, keeps the large scale of the others but has freestanding glass blades coming out of the ground behind the shelter to contain the poems.
Inscriptions: Poems which vary.
The first two bus shelters were designed by Neil Gillespie, the architects were Reiach & Hall. The architect of the third bus shelter was Linda Tolmie.
The first poem to be displayed in the original bus shelter was by Robert Crawford, professor at St Andrews University.
The original bus shelter won the Royal Fine Art Commission's 'Jeu d'Esprit' prize in 2001.
Design period: 2000-2003
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0858)
