{"id":9,"date":"2025-04-29T17:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/?p=9"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:44:19","slug":"roman-style-mosaic-unveiled-at-sea-watching-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/roman-style-mosaic-unveiled-at-sea-watching-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman-style mosaic unveiled at sea watching spot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Roman-style mosaic has been unveiled at a sea life viewing station on the Scarborough coast.<\/p>\n

The artwork, by Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller and mosaicist Coralie Turpin, measures 27.5ft (8.4m) long and 20ft (6m) wide and is a permanent installation.<\/p>\n

It spans the floor of a new sea watching station on Marine Drive, which is a renovated 1990s seaside shelter with free telescopes for viewing marine life.<\/p>\n

Deller said: “I wanted to make a piece of public art that didn’t get in the way of the view because there’s a great view here.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s meant to be almost invisible until you stand on it and I like the idea of that,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The artwork is in fragments and is based on Roman mosaics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Deller came up with the idea for a Roman mosaic reflecting the wildlife in Scarborough and Turpin helped bring it to life.<\/p>\n

It depicts a whale, a ship, dolphins and the various marine life on the Scarborough coast.<\/p>\n

“Coralie is a mosaicist and she knew how to make an idea happen,” Deller said.<\/p>\n

“The idea is sometimes the easy bit, making something that is thousands of hours of work is the difficult part.”<\/p>\n

Alongside her team, Turpin hand cut up to 300,000 pieces of tile to put the mosaic together, which took six months to complete.<\/p>\n

“It looks like it has been discovered during an archaeological dig,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It’s fragmentary, so you would only have found little sections of it.”<\/p>\n

Turpin said the colour scheme was based on Roman mosaics, which had originally been made using marble.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The project was a collaboration between Invisible Dust, an art and science organisation, and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The project was a collaboration between art and science organisation Invisible Dust and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.<\/p>\n

Jeanine Griffin, curator at Invisible Dust, said: “The aim is to really engage people with the amazing wildlife on their doorstep and draw in people who are interested in nature and culture to Scarborough, as a year-round tourist offer.<\/p>\n

“It’s a really beautiful spot elevated above the sea, you can see right over the seawall to look at pods of dolphins.”<\/p>\n

Information panels on marine life have been installed inside the station.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Roman-style mosaic has been unveiled at a sea life viewing station on the Scarborough coast. The artwork, by Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller and mosaicist Coralie Turpin, measures 27.5ft (8.4m) long and 20ft (6m) wide and is a permanent installation. It spans the floor of a new sea watching station on Marine Drive, which … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmeld.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}