William Pye - Water Sculpture

Aquarena
Millenium Square, Harbour Side, Bristol

William Pye was awarded this commission through a competitive process. The client, at-Bristol Limited, required that this Millennium Commission should be interactive and that it should be in the centr...
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Argosy
Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Fenchurch Street, London

Argosy, a new water sculpture by William Pye, occupies the courtyard in front of Lloyd's Register of Shipping at 71 Fenchurch Street, London EC3. The water action of the sculpture adopts the Coanda...
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Charybdis
Seaham Hall, Sunderland

The sirens Charybdis and Scylla resided in the Sicilian Sea. Homer tells us that because Charybdis had stolen the oxen of Hercules, Zeus struck her with a thunderbolt and changed her into a whirlpool ...
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Coracle
Buckinghamshire

The concept is a direct development of my Brimming Bowl series. These works have all incorporated internal weirs within a pool, both as aesthetic features and also as a means of circulating the water....
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Cube / Pyramid

Bronze Cube / Snake Pyramid...
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Edfu

Highgrove

Jubilee Fountain
New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London

Mini Vortex
Pye Studio

Morphogenesis

Morphogenesis, defined as 'the emergence of specific form during development'. This title was suggested to me by my son-in-law, Peter Weigele, a molecular biologist working at MIT, in Boston. Two c...
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Nautilus
20 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1

Having his design approved, the next major challenge was posed by the clients stipulating that normal office operations should continue with minimal interruption during the installation of the sevente...
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Offspring I
Royal Academy

Offspring I is a member of the family of pieces which originated in Nautilus at Anglo American (volume II) and was inspired by a photograph by Edward Weston. This is of a section through a nautilus sh...
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Offspring II

Offspring II is a member of the family of pieces which originated in Nautilus at Anglo American (volume II) and was inspired by a photograph by Edward Weston. This is of a section through a nautilus s...
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Pole

Pole is a more sober treatment of the continuous stream: four thin stainless steel columns on a square base support a square cistern, from whose centre descends a fifth column, so straight and true th...
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Scylla

Sibirica Minor
Salisbury Cathedral

2005 is the fourth year that I have installed a piece in Salisbury Cathedral and Sibirica Minor II has been on loan there from Easter 2005 until Pentecost 2006. During this time the water sculpture ha...
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Skip

Skip was made concurrently with Pole. Both pieces represent the outcome of research and development experiments into the properties of laminar flow deployed in various ways....
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Slipstream
London Gatwick Airport

Starburst
The Serpent Garden, Alnwick Castle, Northumblerand

Water is jetted from below up onto a circular disc of toughened glass. Droplets burst and radiate, changing and transmuting as they travel to the outer limits of their world, until they reach a moment...
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Triple Spout
Cardiff Oval Basin

William Pye was engaged as a consultant to Nicholas Hare Architects to develop with them a concept for a water sculpture for Cardiff Oval Basin. The architects were in the process of transforming the ...
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Vessel I
Roche Court, Salisbury

Vessel II
Outside Tate Britain

Water Tower
Cardiff Oval Basin