In the final act of the OneOak project, today we returned the OneOak memorial sculpture to its rightful home; to the woodland at Blenheim Palace.
The end of the OneOak project: the forestry team at Blenheim Palace gather with sculptor Simon Clements (right) and Sylva’s Gabriel Hemery (left)
The sculpture, designed and made by Simon Clements, toured around all the OneOak exhibition venues during 2011 and 2012 but it was always destined to rest on top of the stump of the OneOak tree that provided the inspiration and material for the three year project. The sculpture will now remain in the woodland to weather and grow a natural patina of mosses and lichens, surrounded by a small forest of 250 oak trees.
One of the 250 oak trees planted by school children emerges from its treeshelter near the OneOak memorial sculpture
Installing the OneOak memorial sculpture and repairing a few tree stakes damaged by browsing deer
Simon Clements installs the OneOak memorial sculpture on the tree stump
The OneOak sculpture returns fresh from its journeys around Britain – last seen in Edinburgh!
Our thanks to Simon Clements and the forestry team at Blenheim Palace.
