Tidal Clock, Cardiff

Ian Ritchie Architects with the artist Francis Gomilla won the 1991 Cardiff Bay International Sculpture Competition with a Tidal Clock – a large copper figurehead.
“And the bay was white with silent light
Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
In crimson colours came.”
[from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner] The land owner, having previously agreed, then refused Cardiff Bay Development Corporation permission to allow it to be erected. We were later offered a roundabout, but refused the commission.