The Treadgold Fish
We stopped off in Southsea to see how Pete Codling's stunning piece of art was doing
“The Treadgold Fish” named after the Treadgold Heritage Museum in Portsea, a 200 year old Iron Mongers and Forge. Artist Pete Codling himself locally based was invited as Artist in Residence to create a piece of art using the very scrap metal they were due to clear from storage.
The Fish was the result but to add an extra dimension to it, the public were invited to dispose of their plastic bottles inside the sculpture!
So last week when we visited it had reached it’s climax, as it was stuffed full of plastic, some estimated 12,000 bottles!
Looking at the photo above, it’s staggering to think that this one sculpture holds that many bottles. Makes you think doesn’t it?
Inside the fish sculpture is a human figure but we can no longer see him for he has been swamped by all of the rubbish. Pete on his website describes this character as being a “Jonah like dude, on his phone, is every man, everyone”.
Sculpture created by Pete Codling