TODAY, the Daily Post reveals who will create our lasting artistic contribution to culture year – the final Liverpool Map sculpture.
After a long process of pitching, interviewing and discussing, the final piece of work will be created by glasswork artists Jeffrey Sarmiento and Inge Panneels.
The Daily Post has been running the Liverpool Map campaign for nearly a year, and we have gathered a wealth of invaluable feedback from readers which will shape the final artwork.
The new map will show where the people of Merseyside think Liverpool’s borders are, and it will also highlight Liverpool’s growing local, national and global influence.
It will be donated to the Museum of Liverpool, which is currently being built, as a lasting legacy of the 2008 culture celebrations.
Last night, Ms Panneels said: “We are so pleased to be chosen.
“When I read the brief, I thought the type of layered glass work we do will be perfect for such a project, because it enables us to incorporate many images and words.
“We are very excited about coming back to Liverpool to complete our research and get started on the piece.”
The artists are based at the University of Sunderland and will create the “monumental multi-layered glass monolith” by building up stacks of sheet glass, fused together into a solid block. Each sheet would be printed with different imagery and, as the viewer moves, different aspects are revealed. They expect their research to be finished in four months, with the sculpture created next year.
Georgina Young, exhibition curator at the Museum of Liverpool said: “Inge Panneels and Jeffrey Sarmiento's glass sculpture will be a stunning landmark in the new Museum of Liverpool when it opens.
“Their sculpture is made up of layered images which reflect the multi-faceted character of this city, and highlight the changes in Liverpool through time. The finished piece should say something about – and mean something to – the people of Liverpool and the involvement of Daily Post readers in deciding the map’s boundaries mean that it can truly reflect the city’s perception of itself in 2008.”
The project is part of Open Culture – a platform to enable the people of Liverpool to engage with the celebrations for 2008.
It is collaboration between Radio City, BBC Radio Merseyside, Liverpool Echo and Daily Post, Phil Redmond with the ICDC, and Liverpool Culture Company.
Last night, Phil Redmond said: “Culture is not just about attending or creating events, it is also about artefacts and how those artefacts form part of our collective and inherited culture.
“Because of our long-standing relationship with National Museums Liverpool, Alexis and I wanted to leave behind an artefact that future generations, perhaps even a couple of hundred years from now, would look at and help give them an insight about what the people of Liverpool were thinking around their 800th Anniversary and Capital of Culture Year.
“The Liverpool Map is a depiction of the way Liverpudlians view where they live, not as something defined by a line on a map, but by where they and their families and friends live, work, shop and play. It is about a shared culture not a geography.”
LOOK out for the launch of our global vote in tomorrow’s Daily Post, where we ask you which world locations you want to include in the Liverpool Map.
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