{"id":358017,"date":"2026-04-01T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:06:13","slug":"organic-sculpture-planned-for-guernsey-market-plinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358017\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Organic&#8217; sculpture planned for Guernsey market plinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had taken inspiration from the island to design the new sculpture for the centre of town. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m here doing the same things anyone on the island would do; fishing by the lighthouse, visiting boatyards, looking for parts and ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I use a lot of found objects, anything sitting in the corner of a yard collecting rust could be inspiration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capper said he was excited to work with local students to create the project: &#8220;It&#8217;s really important that the sculpture is connected to the community. I want to make it here, in amongst the people of Guernsey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This project integrates everyone from welders to apprentices to schoolchildren, showing how art and engineering can come together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team behind the project said they hoped they could have the sculpture in place this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cragg said anyone with leftover maritime equipment they thought could make up part of the sculpture was asked to get in contact with the artist, as he wanted to use local materials to put it together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said he had taken inspiration from the island to design the new sculpture for the centre of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358018,"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":{"0":"post-358017","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-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358017","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=358017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}