Whatever happened to Ambit?

[tunstall birdman]

Should've been turned into seating on dry land, bit of up cycling and that......would've looked bonny until the breeze block yobbos got their destructive mitts in it.
Actually they could have had a loud speaking blaring out @tunstall birdman s poetry to keep the scum away.

My poetry is better art than that wiggly chrome worm pile of shite.

 

[look out piano]

My poetry is better art than that wiggly chrome worm pile of shite.

It sure is my love, it sure is

 

[tunstall birdman]

It sure is my love, it sure is

 

[citybythesea]

They should have put it in Mowbray park pond

Would have worked there

 

[Pantomime Mackem]

It was supposed to be Sunderland's Angel of the North. It was always a disappointment IMHO

 

[smoker]

Ambit: The sad story of Sunderland's floating sculpture in the River Wear

Ambit was the toast of the arts world when it was unveiled in Sunderland in September 1999.

www.sunderlandecho.com

In a lock-up in the east end apparently.

BTW I think the Echo nicked this article from the Antiquarians newsletter, it's virtually the same.

 

[DJP]

'It soon became a target for local kids who hurled breeze blocks at it and severed its armoured power cables.'



Anyone off here?

City of Culture

 

[Sporty]

Ambit: The sad story of Sunderland's floating sculpture in the River Wear

Ambit was the toast of the arts world when it was unveiled in Sunderland in September 1999.

www.sunderlandecho.com

In a lock-up in the east end apparently.

BTW I think the Echo nicked this article from the Antiquarians newsletter, it's virtually the same.

Link in post #5 said it was scrapped in 2014 and here's the Shields Gazette article it mentions

Ambit secretly scrapped: Council reveals Sunderland's controversial £250,000 floating sculpture was sent for 'recycling'

Today we can finally reveal what became of Sunderland's most controversial artwork

www.shieldsgazette.com

Its location was kept under wraps, and questions have hung over its future for almost two decades, but Sunderland City Council has finally revealed that the artwork was secretly scrapped five years ago.

Councillor John Kelly, the council's portfolio holder for Communities and Culture, told the Echo: "As with many pieces of public art, Ambit always received a lot of attention and controversy, and hindsight.

"After it was taken out of the river, it went into storage at the Sunderland Maritime Heritage Centre and its materials were sent for recycling in 2014."

 

[Cheesy Feet]

They should have put it in Mowbray park pond

Would have worked there

They should’ve got the arsehole who designed it and whoever gave the go ahead for the money to be wasted on it and put them in Mowbray Park pond.

 

[Balti Man]

Had a failed relationship with one of the Cheeky girls then faded into obscurity IIRC?