Cavorting Sailors

Revived

On display in the garden beside Granton Lighthouse

Cavorting Sailors

Originally on display beside Leith Harbour

'Cavorting Sailors' statues in the garden beside Granton Lighthouse, West Harbour Road

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Shaeron Averbuch, Granton, Edinburgh:  September 15, 2010

 

Cavorting Sailors

Leith

Sailors

Thank you to Shaeron Averbuch, an artist who is now based at the The Lighthouse gallery, West Harbour road, Granton, for allowing me to reproduce this photograph of her models of cavorting sailors.

These originally formed part of an exhibit, including sailors rolling barrels, resting on a wall and studying a chart.  The exhibit was on beside Leith Library at the corner of Ferry Road and North Junction Street:

A mural on a gable end at North Junction Street, Leith, depicting Leith's historic connections with the sea, and one of three life-sized models of cavorting sailors ©

Mural

The picture that can be seen in the background is part of a large mural by the partnership, 'Chalk & Grime'.

A mural on a gable end at North Junction Street, Leith, depicting Leith's historic connections with the sea ©

 

Granton

The exhibit suffered from vandalism at Leith, but these two sailors have been rescued and can now be found in the small garden beside The Lighthouse, West Harbour Road, Granton.

'Cavorting Sailors' statues in the garden beside Granton Lighthouse, West Harbour Road ©

Shaeron Averbuch is a founding member of  AiA (Art in Architecture) and is now based in a studio at The Lighthouse.

 

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