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A small boy happily engrossed in every small child’s dream of being able to fly. The artwork is similar to a statue of a girl running ('Run, Run, Runaway') in the same area. The artist acknowledged that he was ‘continuing the theme of movement and children’, to give ‘a sense of continuity between both housing developments.’ Like his running girl sculpture, 'F-F-Flyer' invokes the imagery of time-lapse photography to suggest the child’s fantasy of flight. His body seems to gain momentum as it climbs the steeply rising ‘runway’ pedestal, which chimes ominously with nearby pitched roofs. His haircut, clothes and homemade cardboard wings suggest he belongs to a bygone age when children were freer to engage in mischievous escapades and heroic daring-dos.

Title

F-F-Flyer

Date

1999

Medium

bronze

Accession number

S40_SEJR_S026

Acquisition method

funded by Alfred McAlpine Homes (Yorkshire) Ltd

Work type

Statue

Owner

Chesterfield Borough Council

Custodian

Chesterfield Borough Council

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

2000

Access

time restrictions apply

Access note

playground opening times

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Foxbrook Court, Chesterfield

S40 3SS

Located in the suburb of Walton, within a small grass playground on the west side of Foxbrook Court, off Foxbrook Drive which is off Somersby Avenue where it becomes Breckland Road; a public pathway runs alongside the playground.