Joyride
Joyride
Joyride
Joyride
Joyride
Joyride
Joyride
Joyride
Joyride
Joyride
Joyride

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A mother and child on a circular plinth, the mother carrying her little boy on her back. The mother figure is remarkable for the integration of her dress and skin as a single, tensile form. The artist was commissioned to produce something symbolic for a recently created New Town, the Corporation having been inspired by the use of symbolic sculpture in the rebuilding of bombed Rotterdam. The figures are thus symbolic of the arrival of a new generation in a New Town. The vertical composition with its high centre of interest is a response to its setting on top of a platform with stairs and railings to either side, and a carefully preserved group of trees below.
Title

Joyride

Date

1958–1959

Medium

bronze & stone

Accession number

SG1_SM_S004

Acquisition method

commissioned by Stevenage Development Corporation

Work type

Statue

Owner

Stevenage Borough Council

Custodian

Stevenage Borough Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Listing date

15/04/98

Access

at all times

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Located at

Town Square, Stevenage

SG1 1BP