Squirrel

Commissioned by Dundee Partnership with penguins and monkey. Info from the artist: The brief for the project was that there had to be a connection with Dundee. The sculpture was to be more for children, to have humour and that street furniture or buildings were where they were to be sited, also they could be hidden so that they were not obvious and could be discovered. Overall there had to be a sense of fun about them. After a tour of the city centre with John Gray and Bob McGilvray of the Dundee Public Art Programme to look for possible sites I did some research in the library. I presented my ideas a short time after to the commissioning body of the Dundee Partnership, whose chairperson was Scottish Enterprise Tayside area and regeneration manager Archie Jamieson. I had submitted various drawings; amongst them was the penguin idea, the connection with Dundee being the "Discovery". The squirrel has the connection of Camperdown Park which had the largest population of red squirrels in Scotland at that time.