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The Community
The Community
The Community
The Community
The Community
The Community
The Community
The Community
The Community

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In the post-war years, Glasgow was suffering from a chronic housing shortage, with people living in overcrowded tenements and slum conditions. The response of Glasgow Corporation was to compulsorily purchase these tenements and move the residents to outlying housing estates like Easterhouse. However, the people of Dennistoun in Glasgow’s East End had a strong sense of community and refused to be moved. In the 1970s, they persuaded the Corporation to officially acknowledge the Reidvale Housing Association (the UK’s first resident-led housing association) – which gave the people access to government funding for the refurbishment of Dennistoun. Stan Bonnar was commissioned by the Scottish Development Agency to work with the committee of the Reidvale Housing Association, to produce a work of sculptural art that would reflect the sense that people had of being a 'community standing at the crossroads, at a moment of regeneration’.

Title

The Community

Date

1979

Medium

cold cast bronze resin on brick base

Measurements

H 162 x W (?) x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H 35 x W 134 x D 134 cm

Accession number

G31_GB_S013

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

Reidvale Housing Association

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

on the upper surface of the plinth: STAN BONNAR

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Located at

13 Whitevale Street, Glasgow

G31 1QW

Located at Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre.