Artists Darren and Stephanie Quayle Jackson talk about the 8m high heron sculpture they’ve created and which has just been erected on the quayside in Castletown.
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00:00The conception was five years ago, so it took maybe a year and a half to get the process in, the planning, and then the making took probably a year to build.
00:12The heron nest in Preston Park, and you often see them on the river here. They stand kind of statue still when they're fishing, so they kind of lend themselves to this culture.
00:20So it's definitely the biggest thing that we've ever made, and it wouldn't have been possible without the Creative Network sourcing the Lottery funding, which is what's paid for the new premise, basically.
00:29We've got an idea of just how much excitement it's created this morning. A lot of people out to take a look, take pictures. It's quite a landmark, isn't it?
00:37It's got a beautiful spot to be in.
00:39We had this crazy idea to build a sculpture trail or art trail up the Silverburn. We knew we wanted a fantastic header piece for the trail.
00:51You've certainly got it.
00:53Thanks to Darren Jackson and Stephanie Quayle-Jackson, we really do have a fantastic header piece.
01:03We're thinking of what would probably be the largest heron sculpture in the world. There are a lot of them.
01:11We'll put Castle Town on the map, won't we?
01:14What we wanted was the Isle of Man to have its own equivalent as the Angel of the North in Britain.
01:22So we went down and said, come on, we can do this.