Large painted fibreglass dog sculpture on a green plinth outside the Museum of Liverpool. The lower body is painted blue with fish and seaweed; the upper body shows birds and a tree against cream. Overcast sky above the angular stone-clad museum facade.

Painted Dog Sculpture Outside the Museum of Liverpool

9 October 2019 · Liverpool

A large painted dog sculpture stands on a plinth outside the Museum of Liverpool, its surface divided into two worlds: birds and an orange tree canopy above the waterline, fish, jellyfish, and sea plants below. The contemporary stone-clad facade fills the background, two pedestrians passing without a glance. Public art earns its place when it carries the weight of an entire ecosystem — this one does it on four legs.

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