Tiny Terras March on the English Riviera

Antony Gormley's 'Field for the British Isles', a crowd of 40,000 hand-sized terracotta figures made by the people of St. Helens, will be on show in the Spanish Barn of the recently restored Torre Abbey until August 23. The exhibition is free and will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Gormley has described the Turner Prize award-winning work as, "25 tons of clay energised by fire, sensitized by touch and made conscious by being given eyes ... a field of gazes which looks at the observer making him or her its subject'. 25 tons of clay energised by fire, sensitised by touch and made conscious by being given eyes ... a field of gazes which looks at the observer making him or her its subject."

While the installation visits Torquay, on the self-described English Riviera, related events will take place all around Torbay.

• Babbacombe Model Village, (one of our Best UK Family Attractions) will encourage visitors to make a Tiny Terra for a Field of Tiny Terras at the model village.
• Living Coasts, Torquay's coastal zoo and conservation charity, will create a colony of 800 plaster of paris penguins dipped in terracotta paint.
• During Tiny Terras on the Beach, on July 24, sandcastle versions of Field for the British Isles will be created on Torre Abbey Sands beach only to be washed away with the tide at day's end.

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