00:00Introduce yourself and tell me a bit about the art installation behind you.
00:03Hi, I'm Bruce Bestos and this is Peppa Buck the Mole here at Island Park. It's a new commission
00:10celebrating the landscape, the natural landscape around here. It's also meant to be a provocation
00:16of people kind of coming and seeing what's interesting about Island Park.
00:20How long has it taken and what's the inspiration?
00:23So it's taken about seven months to bring together
00:26The actual woodworking and that sort of thing was maybe three months. I worked with a team on this one
00:32So it's the largest outdoor installation I've done. It's nearly four meters tall. It's really exciting to be able to
00:40to try something new out a new a new material for me and the inspiration came from doing a site visit here
00:46I was walking around the grounds looking for sites that we could use and inspiration and I stepped back on a molehill
00:53As I was looking over at Thorpe Cloud and I really liked the idea that somehow Thorpe Cloud was like a massive molehill
01:00So that was the start of the kind of journey that has led us to Peppa Park the Mole
01:05So it's going to be here till November
01:08Island Park is a national trust but it's free entry
01:11You can go inside it and
01:13relax in there or
01:16enjoy the
01:17enjoy the views out the door
01:19There's also a mole hunt so you can go around the park looking for the other Peppa Pots that have popped up
01:28So I'm based in Nottingham
01:31and my work generally is quite fun
01:34People seem to respond to it quite well. I'm usually making monsters or making creatures like the Mole Monster Size
01:42This particular piece of work is also partly inspired by Peppa Pot which is a kind of folly that's on the grounds here
01:49a beautiful
01:50architectural
01:51weird design
01:53but it's great to
01:54great to kind of bring that into the sculptures that I make so sort of site specific if you like
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