Helen Denerley
Giant spider, 2023
combine harvester dividers, gas guns, tanks and barbeque lid
3.3m high
£ 33,000.00
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When I left art school in 1977, my first job was for Aberdeen City Council on the Job Creation Scheme.
I made an enormous spider for Hazlehead Park. The eyes were scrap street lights which flashed and it had concealed speakers inside its fibre glass body. These were activated by children playing on its large web beneath. It was an ambitious project which gave me a taste for scale. I have wanted to make one ever since.