Altocumulus Zoe Lynch 12 Walk SCULPTURE Walk Extended Walk into The Forum, up the stairs Key points The Oval and then turn left to Jacobs Ladder stairs and lift Approximate distance/time (The Forum is open Mon-Sun, 8am-8pm) without Extended Walk = 1Km (20 mins) 11 Kneeling Figure Approximate distance/time Unknown Artist Learning Resources with Extended Walk = 5Km (1 hour) Centre Route The Key de Havilland Jacobs Ladder hertfordshire and Lift International College Elehouse Campus The Forum Law Court Learning Resources Building Centre College Lane

Innovation Centre 13 14 Main Entrance Invitation to Leap Hutton Hub Trees are the Lungs Nicola Hutchison To sculptures of the World Diabolo Vusumuzi Michael Mlambo Diane Maclean 11 and 12 Science Block Visitor CAR Park 8 Beacon Hutton Elehouse Building The Forum Main Building 7 Main Film, Music and College Plan Reception Vertical Forms Media Building 1 Trevor Tennant 5 Barbara Hepworth: 6 Currently not on display

Bench Hermione Harper 2 10 Catch the free-of-charge Hatfield Cairn UNO bus (no.11 or 12) Andy Goldsworthy 4 from here to sculptures Mountain 13 & 14 at de Havilland Campus Diane Maclean To de Havilland Campus via Spiral Bridge Entrance Tabatha Gravener College Lane (15 min walk) 3 Barbara Lander 9 for sculptures 13 & 14 Torso John Farnham Sir Geoffrey de Havilland Well done for completing Art and Design Keith Maddison the Sculpture Walk Building Todd Building Mercer Main Entrance Lindop Artwork created by Building Building Holly Francesca BA (Hons) Applied Art (University of Hertfordshire 2009)

Visitor CAR Park motif, making cairns all over the 1 Trevor Tennant b1900 – 1980 4 Barbara Lander b1956 COLLEGE PLAN, 1952 world in many materials including ENTRANCE, 1994 stone, ice, branches and slate. Bianco del Mare Goldsworthy is renowned globally Steel Commissioned by Hatfield for his contribution to ‘Land Art’; Donated by Barbara Lander to Technical College creating ephemeral and permanent the University of Hertfordshire Art Collection College Plan is one of five works site-specific sculptures that masterfully contribute to the natural which inaugurated the Collection. Entrance is an ‘assemblage’ that beauty of rural locations. Sculpture Walk Trevor Tennant was commissioned has been constructed from new and in 1948 to respond to the architect’s found pieces of steel. In the artist’s design for the Main Building of Hatfield hands discarded scrap is given Technical College. Reproduced in 3 John Farnham b1942 new life, coming together with new a clean white stone, this schematic TORSO, 1980 elements to create a fresh sculptural INTRODUCTION relief depicts the original geometric Bronze form. Like many sculptures produced footprint, which is now somewhat The University of Hertfordshire Art Commissioned by the University during the 1990s, the materials and obscured by more recent architectural Collection features 500 artworks of Hertfordshire welding process give the work an developments. Tennant predominantly displayed across the campuses. industrial feel. However, Barbara carved sculptures for public spaces and This walk introduces 14 outdoor John Farnham was born in Lander intended Entrance to embody believed passionately in placing artistic sculptures. The Collection was Hertfordshire where he continues to motherhood, both the physical side creativity at the heart of everyday life. established in 1952 and has grown live and work. Growing up next door of childbirth and the more emotional to Henry Moore, he was fortunate responsibilities of becoming a parent over the decades to enhance and College Plan was relocated to its to become Moore’s assistant. and protector. animate the University’s extensive current site in 2013 from the former After a lengthy apprenticeship grounds. Today sculptures, paintings, Main Entrance to the University. prints, photographs, drawings, that encompassed all aspects of textiles and ceramics are introduced sculpture, from building armatures 5 Hermione Harper into the public spaces where people to making enlargements, Farnham UNTITLED (BENCH), 1998 study, work or visit. 2 Andy Goldsworthy b1956 established his own artistic practice. HATFIELD CAIRN, 2001 Torso comes from a series of bronze Ceramic The Sculpture Walk presents an sculptures in which he depicts Commissioned by Pat Ingram eclectic group of works that map the Slate an abstracted human form with to commemorate her period as changing characteristics of British Commissioned by the University of curvaceous and muscular qualities. President of Unison 1995/6 Hertfordshire Sculpture. You will encounter a stone Much like his tutor’s working Untitled (Bench) can be defined as relief by the iconic Barbara Hepworth, Hatfield Cairn was commissioned process, Farnham allows the colour both ‘street furniture’ and sculpture, a bronze torso by Henry Moore’s during Andy Goldsworthy’s residency and features of the material with going beyond the core function of a pupil John Farnham and Land Art in December 2001. Used since which he works to determine the bench to suggest an organic form. by Andy Goldsworthy. Elsewhere prehistoric times, cairns are mounds final outcome. The choice of material is unusual the walk reveals sound sculptures, of rough stones built as a memorial for large outdoor sculpture, but the interactive works, assemblages and or landmark. Since the 1980s colour and texture aptly reflects ambitious steel interventions. Goldsworthy has worked with this elements from the natural world, whether this is vertebrae, shells, pioneer. He constructed his first 7 Barbara Hepworth b1903-1975 8 Nicola Hutchison b1977 rocks, gullies or glaciers. Untitled VERTICAL FORMS, 1951 INVITATION TO LEAP, TOUCH, MAKE machine in 1909 without having seen (Bench) was fired at Digswell Arts SOUND, 2013 an aeroplane in flight and remarkably Trust between 1996 and 1998 whilst Hopton Wood stone taught himself to fly. De Havilland Hermione Harper completed a Commissioned by Hatfield Stainless steel went on to design more than fifty fellowship there. Technical College Commissioned by UH Arts to aircraft, notably among these were commemorate the University’s the Mosquito, DH-2 fighter and Currently not on display Diamond Jubilee in 2013 the DH-4 light bomber, which saw Barbara Hepworth’s extraordinary worldwide service and played a 6 Diane Maclean b1939 This discrete series of sculptures career as a sculptor spanned five major role in the establishment of MOUNTAIN, 2005 are interactive, only coming to life decades. She was recognised U.S. Air Mail. when a participant strikes them. Stainless steel, sound, light, internationally for developing direct Nicola Hutchison invites passers-by In 1951 the de Havilland Company photographs carving techniques into natural to create their own music with these gave land to Hertfordshire County Commissioned by the Natural History materials. Vertical Forms depicts 14 metallic spheres, each sphere Council for educational use Museum, London. Donated to the a trio of interlocking abstracted a different size and producing a as Hatfield Technical College. collection with generous support from figures that were inspired by different tone. The artist’s interest This life-size bronze statue was Tony Moore. multiple drawings of dancers, who lies in developing ways people can unveiled much later by The Duke regularly visited the artist’s studio. This immersive and multi-sensory listen more attentively to the sounds of Edinburgh in 1997. It accurately The sculpture was created at a sculpture invites people inside to and rhythms of a given environment. depicts Sir Geoffrey de Havilland time when Hepworth turned away participate, rather than merely observe. She also highlights the repeated within the conventions of traditional from her interest in landscape and The reflective quality of the surfaces architectural feature of the three commemorative portraiture. concentrated on the human figure, is disorientating but places us directly courtyards and the flow of students, and in particular small groups of within the sculpture. The crunch of staff and visitors through these figures. slate beneath our feet is echoed in walkways. 10 Tabatha Gravener b1980 the sound piece that captures glacial As one of the Collection’s founding Nicola Hutchison graduated in SPIRAL BRIDGE, 2009 movement. Our attention is drawn works, Vertical Forms was originally MSc Music Composition for Film to the series of small vignettes, built directly into the brick fabric Corten steel and Media from the University of featuring illuminated images of different of the Main Building. It was Birch Student Sculpture Commission Hertfordshire (2011). minerals. Mountain is one of several housed there for nearly seven 2009 artworks that have resulted from Diane decades before being removed for Maclean’s collaborations with scientists Spiral Bridge is deliberately located conservation work after enduring at the meeting point of the new working in the field of climate change significant weathering (2019). The 9 Keith Maddison b1951 and mineralogy. SIR GEOFFREY DE HAVILLAND, 1997 architecture of The Forum and sculpture is currently on loan to The Nursery, and the old woodland A graduate in Fine Art from the Hepworth Wakefield museum until Bronze beyond. Its form and scale were University of Hertfordshire in the 2022, after which it will be re-sited on Commissioned by the University inspired by meteorological diagrams 1980s, Diane Maclean received an campus in a protected location. of Hertfordshire that represent the meeting of hot and cold air fronts, which create Honorary Doctorate three decades Sir Geoffrey de Havilland was an a spiral shape as rising hot air is later (2017) in acknowledgment of her aeronautical engineer and aviation impressive career as a sculptor. forced down by cold air fronts. Bedded permanently in the ground, rounded masses with a level base. metal components from scrap cars, with this sculptural intervention has Zoe Lynch translates this into an new elements to create a hybrid species. literally become part of the campus ornate asymmetric archway, cleverly The sculpture’s materials and title opens landscape. The choice of Corten transforming a robust material up questions about the role trees play in steel is significant; known as into a delicate layer, by a complex the echo-system and the impact of fuel ‘weathering steel’ this material punctured pattern. The sculpture is emissions on the natural world. forms a stable rust-like appearance light-dependent, becoming almost Vusumuzi Michael Mlambo graduated if exposed to the elements for translucent in sunlight and projecting Business in Fine Art from the University of H A1001 several years. dramatic shadows at other times. C Park Town Centre Within this open landscaped area Hertfordshire (2009). Tabatha Gravener graduated in of the campus, Altocumulus sits Generously sponsored by Fine Art from the University of T G to the Station comfortably among the other natural Birch Engineering. A1057 Hertfordshire (2011). Cavendish Way features of grass, trees and water. to Hatfield House to St Albans

Generously sponsored by Bishops Rise Zoe Lynch graduated in Fine Art from UNO Shuttle Diane Maclean b1939 Bus College Lane Birch Engineering. the University of Hertfordshire (2016). 14 DIABOLO, 2018 The University of Generously sponsored by (M) Hertfordshire is located Coloured Stainless steel A1 Birch Engineering. Donated by the artist to the 10 minutes by bus from Hatfield Station 11 Unknown University of Hertfordshire Art and just off the A1(M) A1001 C L UNTITLED (KNEELING FIGURE) Collection 13 Vusumuzi Michael Mlambo b1969 Junction 3 C Limestone TREES ARE THE LUNGS OF THE WORLD, This imposing 4.5metre high sculpture takes its name and inspiration from the A1(M) Little is know about this modest figure 2008 ancient Chinese spinning toy. Its form carved in stone, almost lost within its Steel and scrap car components North Orbital Road - A414 relates to a number of other outdoor The Forum wooded setting. The artist depicts Birch Student Sculpture Commission sculptures that Diane Maclean has the human body abstracted in an 2008 created based on pyramidal shapes. unsophisticated, even primitive style. Trees are the Lungs of the World is The dynamic surface changes from currently the only public sculpture red, purple and blue, to gold. The located at the University’s de Havilland colour is created by daylight entering 12 Zoe Lynch b1995 Campus and we look forward to a fine oxide layer and varies as the ALTOCUMULUS, 2016 commissioning more work for this viewer moves around the sculpture in the changing light of day. This scientific Stainless steel site. Located among living trees of dimension to the sculpture is typical Birch Student Sculpture Commission similar height, Vusumuzi Michael of Maclean’s practice. 2015 Mlambo’s bespoke palm tree is well camouflaged and potentially tricks the The sculpture takes its name from viewer with a kind of ‘trompe l’oeil’ (an the meteorological term ‘altocumulus’ art technique that creates an optical describing a cloud formation of illusion). This ‘assemblage’ unites