More sculpture problems

Published: Friday, 12 February 2010

NOT disfigured or stolen (yet) but this time  a canalside sculpture of an angler who to some doesn't look like one.

The sculpture was unveiled earlier this week, but immediately provoked  criticism that it did not look like a canal angler but more like a fly fisherman—and its hat was wrong.

But the artist, Luke Perry admits he knows nothing about angling as he does not even fish.

It is stated that 'Inland Waterways officials' lodged objections saying the design looked more like someone fly-fishing—a practice associated with rivers and lakes rather than canals. They also insisted the trilby-style hat worn was not typical of canalside anglers.

However, David Evans, who posed for the picture, told the complainants should get their facts right before lodging objections, remarking that he was in fact wearing a fisherman's hat.

The chairman of Walsall's Development Control Committee, who approved the design, remarks that he had been left bemused by the objections.