Description:
Two shaped steel columns, five metres high, each supporting a two metre high cast bronze figure. Columns spaced 45 metres apart sited symmetrically to the building frontage. Also a total of 50 metres of cast GRC (glass fibre reinforced cement) relief panels fixed to the existing curved dock wall.

Panels cast by specialist manufacturer in flexible moulds taken from five 1 metre square clay original reliefs modelled by Diane Gorvin. Plaster originals for column figures made by Phil Bews. Phil also designed associated paving.

Commission Title:
Time and Tide

Sculptors:
Philip Bews and
Diane Gorvin

Production Period:
May 1993 - Sep 1993

Site:
Frontage of Customs and Excise VAT Headquarters onto the River Mersey at Queens Dock, Liverpool, England.

Production Method:
Artist liaised with designers, PSA Projects Birmingham, over paving design and base installation. Liaison with steel fabricator, Oldroyd Bros., Runcorn, for design, manufacture and installation of steel columns. Manufacture of GRC panels by BCM Contracts, Whitchurch.