Life-sized iron figures will be installed at five waterside sites including charitys buildings in Suffolk and Bristol Channel
Five life-sized iron figures by the sculptor Antony Gormley will be installed at waterside sites including the roof of a Martello tower in Suffolk, and Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, next year to mark the 50th anniversary of the Landmark Trust, the charity that rescues derelict historic buildings and restores them as holiday rentals.
Gormley has chosen the sites himself for Land, his only new work that will be shown in the UK next year, and is not charging the charity. His sites represent four compass points at the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland, Wales and England, with a central point by the canal at Lowsonford in Warwickshire where the trust owns the old lock keepers cottage.
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