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The Ewe Sculpture Garden guide
FALLING WATER GARDEN
the Yarn Spinner .....’the dance is beginning’
Wood Family (5) look out for more..(& copper bird bath)
The Odd Sock & The Abandoned Shoe..a marriage
made in heaven. This is for all the odd socks & abandoned shoes of
this world, and the questions they pose.
Solitaire (Game)
Man in a hole  Up from Easter Island, this distant relative
emerges from the ground to explore this riverside haven.
Because I’m worth It - Find out  more..swing seat story
Annuver cuppa tea  - Find out  more..swing seat story..
Sisters (2)  Together, forever, whatever..
Four in a row (Game)
Broody  Pondering her bulge; is it really there, imagined, ached for, or just dreamed of?
Ewe Create Your chance to be creative..
Forgot-me-knit The one that many miss. Many times we’re told...'Someone’s sweater there’s getting’ FIERCE wet’.
O & X’s (Game)
Edible Art..Try one of our edible creations or just a cuppa..
Earth Bead Workshop
Make something unique..ring bell..
The Dance Goes On (8)  The dance of life around the building.  Can you find yourself amongst the dancers?
Who hydes..?..find out..(if you can find it..)
O’ so they call that ART....maybe.
Look at Me! Welded steel kinetic child. Anyone with a
toddler in the house may relate to the scale of this arm-waving piece
Birds in flight
Growing Panes Don’t touch -  you know how they can hurt
Public Toilet  (interactive)
Snail Trail Central to this garden - designed to slow you down
Factor 50- too little, too late  Read more - swing seat story
Does my bum look big in this? Read  more - swing seat..
Singin’ in the rain  Find out  more..swing seat story..
The Hug ..trying to hold ..even the water - as it flows beneath her..
Little Deer To find out  more about little deer..swing seat story..
Bride & Groom The groom looking satisfied...
the bride less so.. the ‘happy couple’ head off on honeymoon.
Is the chicken wire veil a metaphor for marriage or how she feels?
Salsa   A flame, a burst of hot latino flavour or a dancer that
moves as you catch them from different perspectives?
Domestic Goddess Find out  more..swing seat story..
Angel & Devil In arm-waving competition.
Wood Family (5)  Another member of the family.
Wood Women (3) Among the Oak trees ..in their element.
TIMELESS  GLEN
(entrance through the arch & onto the bridge )
Heron & Fish ...watching...waiting
A Smile (when you least expect it).
Falling Water (3) On a rainy day the flash floods crash under the bridge with humbling drama .
Chess (Game)
Simple Sole  Spot him in one of the gardens.....?
Pyramiddle Some years ago, friends disappeared to Canada to ‘find and centre themselves’. Sitting cross-legged under a pyramid for a month, they were the inspiration for Pyramiddle or should it be Pyramuddle?  We humans...
Mother Earth’s Moss Bath  Lying along this soft, mist-greened bank - ‘Mother Earth’ will in time, be quite literally bathed in moss.  See it evolve.
Tower Game (Game).....right..
River Stone Game (Game).....left..
’Tis a Grand ride back tho’ Portraying the resident trouts’ implausible, annual upstream battle, with a twist.
(then up the steps and into the....)
ENVIRONMENTAL FOREST
all sculptures made with recycled materials..see what you can spot
Wood Creatures Painted Conifer branches
Catching a Cannie Fish
Water  High up ..to your left - one of the keys to life on earth.
Salmon of Knowledge  Based on the legendary tale about
Fionn MacChuill - ‘ put his finger to his lips & gained great wisdom’
Milk of Human Blindness  War or Waste..or war on waste?
Milking the earth for all its worth.......nurturing milk evolves into
gas masks...
River Dance
Spiro-practor ..these slopes + our spines = chiropractor
Going Native   ‘Tis the way to go..a kinetic Holly
branch balances atop a fallen conifer.
Escape   ‘Twas more like a Celtic Cheetah...’
Whirled Wild Web  Won’t you walk into my parlour..?
...then down the path to your left...
Milk Carton Choir  Music and Song...
Child of the Universe  We think we know ourselves..do you?
Chip off the old block  Harder to spot what’s recycled
..but literally created from our discarded house building materials.
Dandilion  ..then return back & continue left..past the tipi..
Tipi.. Rest & read the oldest story within.
Follow the path into the ‘grotto’ and up to your right to the..
VALLEY OF EDEN
Meander (G) & ‘The Path’ ..meandering poem..
Sticks (Game)
Stone Man Gazing out ...eyes from the past...
Human Sun Dial/ Stone Circle  Try..if there’s sun..
Tenth of a Second The evolution of the earth..in an hour
Evolution Walk The natural history of the planet in 100 steps
Fish From soft bodied creatures, shells, bones..to vertebrates
Amphibian Fins became limbs, & tentative crawl onto land..
Reptile  Shelled eggs..fingers & agile limbs for life on land..
Birds  They took to the air..
Phantas-beforus Countless wonders .. we’ll never see.
Dinosaur  The giants of them all...
Spin a Yarn (Game) For the Yarn Spinners out there..
Peas on Earth ..to be unveiled (if only).
Homo Tyranicus Unlock the vault & see the most
destructive animal that ever lived. Take care & keep closed!
Crows  amongst the Tree Ferns....then up into the
Ewe Create Grotto & right into the
ENVIRONMENTAL FOREST
More...about our insatiable hunger for ‘stuff’... M & M...
..no greater or no lesser.. At last -  your chance to be
King..or Queen ..of The Glengarriff Gargoyles & Gremlins.
Gargoyles & Gremlins (Game)
Rock Face
...continue left on path between Water & Rock Face..
The Call of Nature Take a seat and lift the receiver for a totally new low-tech multi-sensory listening experience.....return..
Golden Triangle  (Game)
(Then back up...and down towards the ladder
Stairway to Heaven Sometimes at the end of the journey
we find we are back where we began;  saplings inside the old oak..
Exhaust Ed & Woaf! - Eliza Wood  A recycled exhaust man, with his loaf tin dog.
Back down into
THE TIMELESS GLEN
Fat Saf  Created from a story, Eliza wrote about our ever expanding cat.
Crows Tempting fate, the birds dot the hillside around the suspiciously tranquil looking Fat Saf. .....then down the steps and back into the Timeless Glen
Passing Time ( Part 1)
Stone Throne
Rapt ( in rug )  On the soft forest floor blanketed in pine needles ‘Rapt’ is swathed and carried away by her own thoughts.
Continuity Next to the spiral..symbol of continuity, this horn-
conch variant calls to a time past & future, memories  & hopes, sea
& mountain, obscured  from view, but forever linked to this place.
Morris (Game) & along the path..
Soli-square (Game)
Slumber  A  figure of sorrel lies on a bed of moss.
Earth dug from the floor,  iron bed & famine ruin.
Time Passing (Part 2) ....the ever flowing silver sands of time slipping through our fingers....
Finally exit over bridge