portstewart sculpture

The final piece of sculpture that I researched is called ‘The Sailing Ship’ and is mounted on a concrete dais and placed in the Burnside roundabout. The ship is of some relevance to the life and work of the late Jimmy Kennedy. (Plate ).





The Coleraine Borough Council commissioned this sculpture and the Landscape Architect, Stephen Todd of ‘Stephen Todd Art and Sculpture’ was chosen to create a piece of work which would reflect the area and give it a sense of place. I was fortunate enough to achieve an interview with the sculptor Stephen Todd.
Stephen Todd trained as a Landscape Architect, and achieved a B.A. (Hons) in Landscape Design from Manchester Poly Technical College. He has been inspired by the work of Richard Serra, born in 1939, who works in a Minimalist style. In the 1070’s and 1980’s Serra produced large-scale sculptures, out-of-doors and used combined sheets of steel with a landscape environment. Therefore the sculpture became part of the ...