More Cog Sculptures In Tillydrone
28 April 2025
In March 2025 five extra cast iron cog sculptures were sited at two locations in Tillydrone, Aberdeen, commissioned by the Tillydrone Gateway Project, as an extension to the original commission by the River Don. Two are sited at the entrance to the Tillydrone Campus, the area’s community hub, and three in nearby St Machar Park.
Tillydrone Campus is a community centre, also home to the local library and a great cafe where the two sculptures sit just outside the window at the front entrance. Words on these two cogs were chosen through suggestions from the local community.
The other three are in St Machar Park. On one side of the park the backdrop is the University of Aberdeen’s Zoology Building, a well-known brutalist building favoured as a film location. Words were chosen to reflect the natural and industrial history and identity of Tillydrone, as with the five at the original site, symbolising the seeds of Tillydrone’s natural, historic and social identity. They were cast in iron at Northfield Foundry, Devon, with excellent finishing work by Blueton in Denny. It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with, and for, the Tillydrone community, and Jane, Susan and Sean of the Tillydrone Gateway Project who managed the whole project so well.
