Title: Bellenden Bollards.
Location: Peckham Rye, London.
Tag: okumephuna, peckhamrye, bollards.
Copyright: Okumephuna Chukwunwikezarramu.
Story: Antony Gormley is one of several artists working in Peckham who are taking part in a scheme to regenerate the area with individually designed lamp-posts, pavements and other street furniture. These bollards, made to the height of more standard versions, are installed at Bellenden Road in Peckham Rye, just along East Dulwich Road and Opposite Tesco. Based on the forms of a simple oval, snowman, peg and penis, the bollards are cast in iron and are allowed to rust naturally. Inevitably the reception of the proposed Bollards in Peckham was controversial because of one of the bollards representing a penis. The bollards show a different aspect of Gormley's working method. Unlike the majority of his sculptures they are not casts of his own body, but pieces, which are designed to be both sculptural and functional. Another famous work of Antony Gormley is the ‘Angel of the North’.
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