List of public art in Dudley
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This is a list of public art in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.
Duncan Edwards Way
Castle Gate Island
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Cannonballs | Castle Gate Island, Dudley 52°30′50″N 2°04′24″W / 52.513854°N 2.073348°W |
2001 | Andrew Burton | Sculpture | Concrete, covered in broken brick | 1.2m diameter spheres | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Part of the "Medieval Life" collection of sculptures[1] | |
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Cannon | Castle Gate Island, Dudley 52°30′49″N 2°04′25″W / 52.513746°N 2.073619°W |
2001 | Andrew Burton | Sculpture | Bronze | 4m long x 3m diameter (mouth) x 3.57m high | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Part of the "Medieval Life" collection of sculptures[1] | |
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Crucible | Castle Gate Island, Dudley 52°30′49″N 2°04′23″W / 52.513694°N 2.073038°W |
2001 | Andrew Burton | Sculpture | Bronze | 3.2m x 1.8m x 2.9m high | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Part of the "Medieval Life" collection of sculptures[1] | |
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Plough | Castle Gate Island, Dudley 52°30′49″N 2°04′23″W / 52.513611°N 2.073161°W |
2001 | Andrew Burton | Sculpture | Corten steel and wood | 3.5m high x 2.4m wide x 2cm deep | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Part of the "Medieval Life" collection of sculptures[1] | |
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Heraldic lion | Castle Gate Island, Dudley 52°30′49″N 2°04′24″W / 52.513617°N 2.073367°W |
2001 | Andrew Burton | Sculpture | Corten steel | 2.7m high x 4m long x 3cm deep | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Part of the "Medieval Life" collection of sculptures[1] | |
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Ruined wall (2 blocks) | Castle Gate Island, Dudley 52°30′50″N 2°04′24″W / 52.513785°N 2.073206°W |
2001 | Andrew Burton | Sculpture | Ceramic blocks | first block 2.16m high x 4.4m long x 51cm deep; second block 2.75m high x 4.6m long x 51cm deep | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Part of the "Medieval Life" collection of sculptures[1] | |
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Premier Inn Dudley Town Centre sculpture | Premier Inn - Castle Gate Island, Dudley 52°30′49″N 2°04′19″W / 52.513626°N 2.072004°W |
Sculpture | Premier Inn | It's on the Birmingham Road side of the hotel. | |||||
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James Whale memorial | Showcase Cinemas - Castlegate Way, Dudley 52°30′56″N 2°04′19″W / 52.515623°N 2.071857°W |
2002 | Charles Hadcock | Sculpture | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council |
Wolverton Road
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Living Fossil | between Wolverton Road and Southern By-Pass - Dudley 52°30′41″N 2°04′28″W / 52.511493°N 2.074538°W |
2000 | Natasha Carsberg | Sculpture | Painted steel | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | resembles a giant seed pod surmounted by a calyx and part of the stalk[2] | ||
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Spiral Fossil | between Wolverton Road and Southern By-Pass - Dudley 52°30′42″N 2°04′27″W / 52.511737°N 2.074174°W |
2000 | Michael Konu | Sculpture | Kilkenny limestone | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | inspired by a gastropod fossil[3] | ||
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Dawn of Time | between Wolverton Road and Southern By-Pass - Dudley 52°30′39″N 2°04′32″W / 52.510866°N 2.075482°W |
2001 | Michael Lyons | Sculpture | Steel painted yellow | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Suggests a sunrise[4] | ||
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Standing Stone | between Wolverton Road and Southern By-Pass - Dudley 52°30′43″N 2°04′26″W / 52.511983°N 2.073884°W |
2000 | John Vaughan | Sculpture | Limestone | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | resembles two stylized, intertwined standing figures[5] | ||
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Giant Hand | between Wolverton Road and Southern By-Pass - Dudley 52°30′40″N 2°04′29″W / 52.511247°N 2.074808°W |
2000 | Jonathan Mulvaney | Sculpture | Ferro-cement | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | large hand and wrist is lying on the grass, palm down[6] | ||
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Fossil sculpture | between Wolverton Road and Southern By-Pass, Dudley 52°30′45″N 2°04′24″W / 52.512519°N 2.073358°W |
Sculpture | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council |
Flood Street Island
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Salamander Obelisk | Flood Street Island, Dudley 52°30′26″N 2°04′51″W / 52.507213°N 2.080823°W |
2000 | Steve Field | Obelisk Sculpture | Filigree steel | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | [7] |
Cinder Bank Island
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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| Fire Tower | Cinder Bank Island, Dudley 52°30′00″N 2°05′26″W / 52.500001°N 2.090573°W |
2000 | Phillip Bews & Diane Gorvin | Sculpture | Steel painted red | 13cm diameter, 20m high, 1.3m wide (max.) | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Six steel tubes forming a circle are welded to a circular steel base.[8] | ||
| Fires of Industry | Cinder Bank Island, Dudley 52°30′01″N 2°05′26″W / 52.500274°N 2.090692°W |
2000 | Phillip Bews & Diane Gorvin | Sculpture | Steel painted red | 20m long x 8m high x 31cm deep | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | 3 steel wedges[9] | ||
| Heroic Worker | Cinder Bank Island, Dudley 52°30′02″N 2°05′27″W / 52.500464°N 2.090956°W |
2000 | Phillip Bews & Diane Gorvin | Statue | Bronze | 3m high x 1.65m wide x 1.1m deep | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | bronze statue of a workman stands on a circle of bricks[10] |
Scotts Green Island
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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| Millennium (Pegasus) | Scotts Green Island, Dudley 52°30′09″N 2°06′18″W / 52.502602°N 2.104897°W |
2001 | Andrew Logan | Sculpture | Bronze | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | [11] |
Town Centre
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Earl of Dudley | Castle Hill, Dudley 52°30′44″N 2°04′49″W / 52.512349°N 2.080289°W |
1888 | C B Birch | Statue | Marble | Grade II listed[12] | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | ||
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Green Man Entry | Castle Street, Dudley 52°30′44″N 2°04′51″W / 52.512147°N 2.080901°W |
2014 | John McKenna | Sculpture | Cast bronze | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | May have been a passageway to an old ale house [13][14] | ||
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Apollo fountain | Coronation Gardens, Ednam Road, Dudley 52°30′46″N 2°05′00″W / 52.51277°N 2.08337°W |
1939 | William Bloye | Statue / fountain | Bronze | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | [15] | ||
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Duncan Edwards | Market Place, Dudley 52°30′35″N 2°04′52″W / 52.509664°N 2.080993°W |
1999 | James Butler | Statue | Bronze | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Was in temporary storage in 2014.[16] Re-dedicated in October 2015 [17] | ||
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Drinking Fountain | Market Place, Dudley 52°30′37″N 2°04′57″W / 52.510383°N 2.082499°W |
1867 | James Forsyth | Drinking fountain sculpture | Stone | Grade II* listed fountain.[18][19] | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | ||
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Ben Boucher | Market Place, Dudley 52°30′37″N 2°04′57″W / 52.510241°N 2.082626°W |
2015 | John McKenna and Steve Field | Statue | Bronze | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | A stone bench where people can take selfies with the statue [20] | ||
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Family Group | Near the footbridge - King Street, Dudley 52°30′34″N 2°04′51″W / 52.509454°N 2.080711°W |
1969 | Edward Bainbridge Copnall | Sculpture | Oak | 400cm high x 90cm wide x 90cm deep | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | depicts a man and woman back to back, with a child at their side, and supporting two children on their shoulders [21] | |
| Figure Group | Birdcage Walk, Dudley 52°30′40″N 2°04′51″W / 52.511055°N 2.080898°W |
1963 | Edward Bainbridge Copnall | Frieze | fibreglass and powdered aluminium | 240cm high x 800cm wide | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Female figure and child represent Education and Family. Two male figures represent Mining and Chainmaking.[22] | ||
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Long Entry | Alleyway - King Street to Market Place, Dudley 52°30′34″N 2°04′56″W / 52.509566°N 2.082218°W |
1995 | Steve Field | sculpture | Painted Steel | Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Set of arches over a passageway depicting scenes from Medieval life [23] | ||
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Dudley Evolve Theatre stone sculpture | Dudley Evolve Theatre, The Broadway, Dudley 52°30′46″N 2°04′56″W / 52.51287°N 2.08212°W |
2018 | Sculpture | Stone | Dudley College | Contains a quote by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - 'You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water'. |
Priory Park
Black Country Living Museum
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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War memorial | Black Country Living Museum - Dudley 52°31′08″N 2°04′38″W / 52.518832°N 2.077156°W |
1923 | War memorial statue | Bronze | Black Country Living Museum | Originally erected in 1923 at William Butler's Springfield Brewery in Wolverhampton.[29] Relocated here in 2010. |
Dudley Zoo
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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| Plight of the Orangutan | Dudley Zoo | 20 December 2022 | Luke Perry | Statue | Steel poles | Dudley Zoo | Features 100 steel poles, 97 of them cut to symbolise the devastating effects of deforestation, mostly due to palm oil plantations.[30] It's designed to raise awareness about the plight of the critically endangered species.[31] |