List of public art in Dorset facts for kids
This is a list of public art in Dorset, in England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.
Bournemouth
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Bournemouth - A History of Shaping the Future | Lansdowne Road, Bournemouth 50°43′24″N 1°52′03″W / 50.723246°N 1.867461°W |
Rick Walker | |||||||
A Life Lost to AIDS in Dorset | Pier Approach, Bournemouth 50°43′01″N 1°52′34″W / 50.716817°N 1.876021°W |
Tiles | Tile designs created by students of Secondary Schools in Bournemouth and Poole during HIV/AIDS awareness workshops run by DAMSET (Dorset AIDS Memorial Schools Educational Trust). | ||||||
Lewis Tregonwell | Exeter Road, Bournemouth 50°43′01″N 1°52′40″W / 50.716819°N 1.877876°W |
Jonathan Sells | Purbeck stone from St. Aldhelm's Head, Dorset. | 3' x 2'6" x 7'6" | |||||
Muriel | Exeter Road, Bournemouth 50°43′09″N 1°52′49″W / 50.7191°N 1.8803°W |
Aubrey Beardsley |
Bovington
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Memorial Statue | Bovington Tank Museum, Bovington | Vivien Mallock after George Henry Paulin | Resin |
Poole
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Statue of Robert Baden-Powell | The Quay, Poole 50°42′43″N 1°59′09″W / 50.71195°N 1.98592°W |
2008 | David Annand | Bronze | facing Brownsea Island. |
Weymouth and Osmington
Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Notes |
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Osmington White Horse | Osmington Hill, Osmington 50°39′27″N 2°24′16″W / 50.65741°N 2.40438°W |
1808 | Chalk | The rider is King George III. | |||||
Statue of Queen Victoria | Outside St John's Church, The Esplanade, Weymouth | 1902 | George Blackall Simonds | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and Portland stone | 7m tall |
Portland
Other
Dorset was once considered for a hill figure of Marilyn Monroe, but the figure was never made.
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