Still Water (sculpture)

Still Water
The sculpture at Marble Arch in 2011
Artist	Nic Fiddian-Green
Year	2011 (2011)
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Bronze
Subject	Horse
Dimensions	10 m(33 ft)
Location	Achilles Way, London, England
Coordinates	51°30′46″N0°09′35″W / 51.51286°N 0.15961°W / 51.51286; -0.15961

Still Water is a large public sculpture in bronze of a horse's head by Nic Fiddian-Green, dating to 2011. It is located at Achilles Way, near Hyde Park Corner in central London, and was initially installed at Marble Arch. The work remains owned by the artist, and is on loan to Westminster City Council.

The 33 feet (10 m) piece was commissioned to replace an earlier and similar, but slightly smaller, work, Horse at Water XV, which was temporarily installed on the site in 2001. That earlier work was moved to Daylesford, Gloucestershire, the home of Sir Anthony and Lady Carole Bamford, who had commissioned it. ^{[1] [2]}

In 2012, Fiddian-Green cleaned the sculpture himself, using a cherry picker. ^[3]

In May 2021 the work was moved to its current location on Achilles Way.^{[ citation needed ]}

Similar sculptures

In 2020, Syria installed a similar sculpture in Rawda Square, Damascus. ^[4]

A small copy of the sculpture stands in the centre of the village of At-Bashy in Kyrgyzstan as the village's name is literally translated as "horse's head" in one of the versions.^{[ citation needed ]}

There is also a copy outside One Island East which houses the headquarters of Swire Properties in Hong Kong.^{[ citation needed ]}

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  The sculpture at Achilles Way in 2023

References

1. Bridgewater, Daisy (6 June 2013). "Interiors: Nic Fiddian-Green's idyllic family home". Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
2. "Surrey". Countryfile. 12 January 2014. BBC.
3. "Still Water at Marble Arch". Marble Arch London. 11 August 2020.
4. "US-Sanctioned Syrian Businessman Brings Back 'British Statue' to Damascus". aawsat.com. 24 September 2020.

External links

• Still Water at NicFiddianGreen.com
• What to see near Marble Arch: a guide to London by tube (2013), The Guardian