Averbuch 

9 creative works found

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  Cavorting Sailors: the one without a bottle
  by Yonmei

  “Cavorting Sailors” by Shaeron Averbuch, was made out of ferro-concrete, the strongest mix of concrete, in the hope the material would be difficult to damage. The statues were put on display in front of the mural beside Leith Public Library. The sailor reclining on the wall was holding a metal replica of an Old Pulteney whisky bottle with a stainless steel decoration, which was ripped off the sculpture, taking the sailor’s hand with it. The sailor’s hat, nose, and feet were also damaged.

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  Cavorting Sailors: the one without a barrel
  by Yonmei

  “Cavorting Sailors” by Shaeron Averbuch, was made out of ferro-concrete, the strongest mix of concrete, in the hope the material would be difficult to damage. The statues were put on display in front of the mural beside Leith Public Library. One sailor was rolling out a real whisky barrel. The barrel was ripped away, taking the sailor’s hands with it. The sailor’s hat, face were also damaged.

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  Cavorting Sailors: the one still without a barrel
  by Yonmei

  “Cavorting Sailors” by Shaeron Averbuch, was made out of ferro-concrete, the strongest mix of concrete, in the hope the material would be difficult to damage. The statues were put on display in front of the mural beside Leith Public Library. One sailor was rolling out a real whisky barrel. The barrel was ripped away, taking the sailor’s hands with it. The sailor’s hat and face were also damaged.

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  Cavorting Sailors: the mural
  by Yonmei

  Street Artworks painted this mural on the gable end of a building in North Junction Street by Leith Public Library in October-December 1986, based on material gathered by members of the Leith Local History society in 1985 for their research project on Great Junction Street. Street Artworks was a partnership between Tim Chalk and Paul Grime. In 2003, Shaeron Averbuch made three statues of cavorting sailors, which were placed in front of the mural. They were vandalised within the year.

• What is art? Cavorting Sailors
  by Yonmei

  My photos of Shaeron Averbuch’s Cavorting Sailors are going to be in an exhibition organi…

  My photos of Shaeron Averbuch’s Cavorting Sailors are going to be in an exhibition organised by the Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, ColloquiArt. It’s at The GRV, 37 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh, 16th/17th March. There’s not a lot of information about it online – I’ll add links when there is – but it will be open to the public. The theme is “What is art?” and they plan to have 3D and performance pieces as well as wall art.

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  To This We All Must Come
  by Yonmei

  Artists for the ColloquiArt exhibition talking about the art left by the previous exhbition in the GRV gallery: we’re setting up today (15th March) for the exhibition tomorrow (16th/17th march). That’s the GRV in Hatties Close off Guthrie Street in Edinburgh: five of my photos are being Colloqui’arted.

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  After the fire
  by Yonmei

  On 7th December 2002, a fire began in the Cowgate, below North Bridge, that burned for two days. It destroyed a unique part of Edinburgh’s Old Town. No lives were lost. Five years later, the location is still a gap site: archaeologists have dug there, developers have launched plans to build there, and graffiti artists display their work there. The script on the earth is only visible from the art studio in the GRV where I took this photograph: it reads we were an affair I don’t know what that means.

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  Hatties Close Stairs
  by Yonmei

  At the first sharp bend in Guthrie Street, going downhill from Chambers Street, there’s a tiny street which is mostly a flight of steps, called Hatties Close. The door on the right leads into The GRV, and through the gates at the bottom of the stair you can see the space that was left after the Great Fire of Edinburgh in December 2002.

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  This Is Not A Work Of Art
  by Yonmei

  Portrait of ColloquiArt – an exhibition organised by the Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, to ask the question “What is art?”