Saturday 19th July 2014
The National Trust at Stourhead has received news of a successful bid for a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to finance a collaborative venture for sculpture installations to tell the story of the effect of World War 1 on the Stourhead community. The Scraptors will be holding workshops and creating five installation in the estate which will be visible from public paths. The illustration (above) shows one of the ideas by the Scraptors for an installation which will refer to the convalescing soldiers who were allowed to row on the lake. The installation will not be on this particular lake but on another in the wider part of the Stourhead estate – there is no question of marring the classic view of the world famous eighteenth century landscape garden. The Scraptors are planning also floating a pontoon with a band of musicians to commemorate the concerts that were held for the wounded soldiers.