Putting up a 350kg (770lb) sculpture that would last on a pier that was constantly lashed by wind and rain, as well as spray from the ocean, had presented several challenges, he said.<\/p>\n
He said: “It has to stay up for decades and that’s a problem if you’re next to the sea.<\/p>\n
“For example, the plinth has a stainless steel support structure, but that can’t touch the bronze, so you have to place a gasket all around it to stop the two metals being affected by salt from the sea.<\/p>\n
“Artistically speaking, this one’s more angular that the one in Newlyn.<\/p>\n
“I’ve taken inspiration from famous St Ives artists like Barbara Hepworth and Alfred Wallis, and the sculpture also features multitudinous pilchards.<\/p>\n
“One day back in the 19th Century the town landed 61 million of the fish and, at that time, there wasn’t a tourist in site, so it’s also a reminder of the past.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Putting up a 350kg (770lb) sculpture that would last on a pier that was constantly lashed by wind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-828628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}