It's been there so long now that it's hard to picture it anywhere else, but 'Quarry Structure' was not originally intended for the location we find it in today. In 'A Sense Of Place' by Peter Davies and Tony Knipe, the artist explains:

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"The materials in my sculpture are from the forest. Stone is fundamental to my work; in the forest the rock is never far from the surface, breaking through in craggy outcrops. I collected slate from old dry stone walls which run through the forest, left over from an old field system. There was plenty of windblown oak which I split to provide me with a basic structural material.

The construction system used in Quarry Structure was originally conceived as a bridging device to follow the line of a stream. Unexpectedly I found the quarry site which immediately made sense of the idea. The quarry had been fenced off, overgrown and forgotten. The structure, nosing out into the path, acts as a device to open up the space, both physically and visually."

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As well as being co-author of 'A Sense Of Place', Peter Davies was also the man who first suggested the idea of an open-air sculpture park in the forest to Bill Grant. Grant turned to Devon-born artist Richard Harris to get the ball rolling and with this and Harris' other 1977 piece, 'Cliff Structure', the Grizedale Sculpture Park was a reality.

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Also by this artist:

Cliff Structure 1977

Dry Stone Passage 1982

Hollow Spruce 1988

Windblown 1991