An ancient chalk giant carved into a hillside has gained a temporary companion as part of a \u00a340,000 arts project.<\/p>\n
The ‘Consequences’ figure, next to the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, was created on canvases from artwork by asylum seekers, schoolchildren and people with learning disabilities.<\/p>\n
The groups, from Yeovil, Somerset, helped to compose the figure from materials they collected from the giant’s hill, including chalk, flowers and butterfly wings.<\/p>\n
The commissioned work is part of the national Nature Calling arts project, which aims to make people feel connected to well-known landscapes.<\/p>\n
Artist Becca Gill, from Bath, Somerset, who created the figure, said she hoped it would make its creators and viewers feel like giants by coming together in appreciation of nature.<\/p>\n
She said: “Even though the groups live in Yeovil, a few miles away, none of them had been to the Cerne Abbas Giant before.<\/p>\n
“Their reactions were extraordinary. One non-verbal child spoke for the first time.<\/p>\n
“The asylum seekers and refugee children were able to play, be joyful and be giant.”<\/p>\n
The new hillside figure, which is genderless unlike its famously male counterpart, has eyes made of flowers, butterfly ears, tentacle legs and a petal for each of the asylum seekers who composed its heart.<\/p>\n
Ms Gill and colleagues amalgamated the contributors’ drawings and collages to create the final image.<\/p>\n
It was then printed onto four canvases, covering an area of 30m x 40m (100ft x 130ft), about three-quarters of the height of the Cerne Abbas Giant.<\/p>\n
Funding came from the Arts Council and Dorset National Landscape, which receives money from the government and Dorset Council.<\/p>\n
The artwork will be dismantled later before touring the region.<\/p>\n
On 13 and 14 September, it can be seen on Summerhouse Hill in Yeovil, which is staging a celebratory parade, before moving to Corfe Castle the following weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ancient chalk giant carved into a hillside has gained a temporary companion as part of a \u00a340,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-119390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}