Present Tense

The Liffey sculpture’s Mini-Me

September 6, 2007 @ 8:55 am | by Shane

Dan Sullivan has spotted that Antony Gormley’s planned Liffey sculpture already has a brother in the University of Limerick. He informs us that:

This is the exact same figure that Gormley did for UL except he filled this one in … He is known as the rusty man

Apparently, he’s also known as Brown Thomas. It’s officially called Together and Apart, was installed in UL in 2001 and is a good 46-metres shorter than the one Dubliners will get.

Update 18:00: Green Ink has posted a vision of how what the sculpture could be.

3 Comments »

September 6, 2007
9:43 am

Looks like that lad off “Deep Space 9″.

Comment by Steve K

September 6, 2007
11:53 am

Odo! Yes, he does look like him.

That “Brown Thomas” nonsense is a recent corporately influenced occurence as I understand it, old timers call him the rusty man. No doubt in ten year newbies will call him something else.

Comment by Dan Sullivan

September 6, 2007
2:15 pm

At this rate, Sligo should get one but slightly smaller again, Newbridge will get one about 2 foot high and then Dingle, whose Gormley posing man will reach the dizzy height of 23cm.

Comment by 73man