Recycled shoes at the heart of Lisbon street art
28/11/2012
Anthony Heywood, head of sculpture at the university, created the colourful sculpture from 2,000 items of used footwear for the city’s festival of culture.
The 5m long and 3m high boots were installed at Martim Moniz Square in Lisbon as the centrepiece of the Take a Walk project which aims to encourage visitors to explore the Portuguese capital on foot. The installation will move to Porto’s Museum of Modern Art in the new year and will be on display there from the end of January until April 2013.
After completing the installation, Anthony Heywood said: “It was a real pleasure to be invited to Lisbon to take part in the project and I’m really pleased with how the boots have turned out. I took the theme of shoes as the universal, or one of the most ubiquitous of items that every person has in their possession, which developed a strong narrative as the shoes were collected from local people and each one represents an individual member of its own community. I also had in mind the iconic image of Vincent Van Gogh’s painting of his boots, which for me carries many universal associations about the different levels of society.”
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