Timekeepers - Public Art at Marshill, Alloa
In May 2004 glass artist Inge Panneels was commissioned by Clackmannanshire Council to produce a stained glass window to commemorate the archaeological findings of two bodies from the Bronze and Iron Ages by Museum & Heritage Officer, Susan Mills in March 2003.
As part of the Council’s Public Art programme Inge was chosen from a short list of three. The brief she was given was to design a work which:
"offers a glass artist the opportunity to commemorate or reflect the recent excavations detailed in the accompanying report. See Related Link to Susan Mills Findings at Marshill. The brief also offers the opportunity to reflect, in a contemporary and appropriate way, on one or more of the historical/social/botanical/ritualistic aspects of the burial site dating from around 2500BC to 250BC–200AD."
The subsequent winning design by Inge was a window which spanned two floors of the block of flats which form part of the new social housing development by Ochil View Housing association at Marshill , Alloa.
Composed of forty six separate panes the work was the largest Inge had been asked to create. Entitled TIMEKEEPERS it symbolises the time span between the Bronze Age woman and the Iron Age warrior to the present day. It also represents the role the site has played in the area’s most recent past, as Colville’s Nursery, and highlights some of the articles found in the graves, including beads and a sword.
Inge reflects on the past and also on our present generation -- walking into the future, as symbolised by the pale ghosts seen from the top end of the design spanning from left to right.
Inge also spent time working with senior Art pupils in Alloa Academy where they were taught the techniques of fused glass staining and manufactured a series of glass panels which will feature in the new building of Alloa Academy once it has been completed.
The plaque which commemorates the works is inscribed:
"Timekeepers"
by Inge Panneels
glass, 2004
This window commemorates the Bronze Age cemetery discovered on Marshill in 1828 and the Bronze Age woman and Iron Age warrior excavated in 2003. It was commissioned by Clackmannanshire Council with public art funding by R & G Homes and supported by Ochil View Housing Association and Communities Scotland.
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