In its tribute, the Royal Academy said he was a “sculptor, educator and curator” who was “best known for his elegantly poised abstract forms”.<\/p>\n
It added it was “fitting” his final “magnificent work” would be “placed in the landscape that first inspired him”.<\/p>\n
That sculpture – the 8.2ft (2.5m) steel Eelips artwork \u2013 has now been installed at the Tynwald National Park and Arboretum in St John’s.<\/p>\n
Made of duplex stainless steel, with its height inspired by the ancient cross stones found around the island, it forms a portal that frames the landscape behind it.<\/p>\n
Funding for the project was provided by the Isle of Man Arts Council via a lottery-funded grant, the Kneale family, the Frampton Fund, and Culture Vannin, and it was put in place in partnership with the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its tribute, the Royal Academy said he was a “sculptor, educator and curator” who was “best known…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-105709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}