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":102646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-102645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}