August 16 2021

The Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh are to mark the successful containment of Covid-19 with the erection of a memorial comprising four life-size figures in bronze.

Crafted by sculptor Kenny Hunter the commemorative piece will replace an existing sculpture adjacent to the Playfair Hall.

Each sculpture will be supported on a foundation of concrete and stand on a 60x60m bronze base, extending to a total footprint of 2.4 x 4.2m.

Provisionally titled Your Next Breath the work has been conceived as a celebration of the compassion and resilience of healthcare workers in containing the Covid-19 outbreak.

To make way for the piece an existing 1994 sculpture, 'From Here Health' by Denys Mitchell, will be relocated.

5 Comments

#1 Posted by tiptoe on 17 Aug 2021 at 18:16 PM

How totally uninspiring. This is as bad as the "prat on scaffolding" outside Edinburgh Councils offices on Market Street.

#2 Posted by The Bairn on 18 Aug 2021 at 10:35 AM

Why?
A complete waste of time, money and the worlds resources...does Greta know about this?
On a more positive note it will at least give the local canine population and Hogmanay revellers a fine target to aim at.

#3 Posted by Henriette MacGregor on 18 Aug 2021 at 11:47 AM

They could have made a sculpture of nurses being paid to make videos of themselves dancing in tik-tok videos while someone is on the ground dying from a curable illness.

This NHS worship is just bizarre, the NHS in the UK handled the pandemic quite badly. They did much worse than healthcare systems that get proportionally much less money so you can't blame a lack of government funding.

#4 Posted by Fitz Hat on 20 Aug 2021 at 10:11 AM

@Henriette I'm pretty sure that NHS staff don't determine government policy, which is where you should be looking for the UK's appalling performance during the pandemic.

#5 Posted by E=mc2 on 21 Aug 2021 at 01:54 AM

Premature

Were they made in Wuhan, they have an eastern vibe to the design?

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