Looking at & Responding to .... Construction ... Looking at Sculpture . . . Northgate by Seamus Dunbar

This is a gateway to a new housing estate in Wexford. Click on the photograph to see a bigger picture.

What materials were used to make the sculpture? Do you think that this is sculpture or a building? What is the difference? Would you call a brick layer a sculptor? Does the sculptor who designed the gateway have to actually build it?

Tell us what you think of Seamus Dunbar's sculpture

Scale is about looking at the size and proportion of a sculpture. Important cities often had very large gateways and arches leading into them. Click on the small photo below to see another gateway from a photograph taken in Rome. It is called the Arc de Constantino and was an important entrance into Rome.