A town’s public art trail, inspired by local heritage, includes a red circle sculpture based on round biscuit tins. <\/p>\n
Art Around Huyton is a project created by artist Martin Heron based on the community’s recollections of people, products and events that shaped the Knowsley town. <\/p>\n
The Family Circle is a red steel gateway sculpture which lights up at night, positioned at the start of the trail at the railway station.<\/p>\n
It is inspired by the biscuit tins of the Huntley & Palmer factory, which opened in the town in 1955 to manufacture popular lines like Cornish Wafers. <\/p>\n
Until its closure in 1983, it was a major employer in the town, with many people reminiscing about the factory during Heron’s research. <\/p>\n
“One lady said that once when they were packing the biscuit tins they had one returned because they found a fingerprint in the biscuit, and it stopped the whole production line,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I really liked how someone had left their mark and it had caused all this disruption.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A town’s public art trail, inspired by local heritage, includes a red circle sculpture based on round biscuit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498958,"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-498957","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\/498957","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=498957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}