Warner takes delivery of new artwork
Published: 28 August, 2008
Shoppers in Birkenhead have been challenged to a series of cultural questions at Warner Estate Holdings' Grange and Pyramids shopping centre since it took delivery of a Superlambanana.
The original Superlambanana sculpture, now located in Tithebarn Street, Liverpool, was designed by Japanese artist, Taro Chiezo to celebrate the re-opening of Liverpool's Tate Gallery in 1998. Ten years on, 120 Superlambanana 'offsping' have been designed by local artists and community members to be put on display across the Merseyside area over the course of the summer.
The replica on show at the Grange and Pyramids shopping centre, called "Culture Chalk", was designed by Dartington College of the Arts graduate, Jacqueline Boylan and allows the public to interact with the artwork by writing chalk responses to controversial cultural questions scribed on the creature's blackboard surface.
