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Wooden whaler

By  David Kemp 2006

Lawrence Creswell

Dimensions
800cm x 200cm x 250cm

Courtesy of
Glasgow City Art Galleries and Museums

Two obsolete cornish clinker-built cove fishing boats joined together with additional woodwork and carved teeth to make a large wooden whale. Access to the interior is by climbing a rope ladder rear the tail. Photographed on the beach at Sennen, West Cornwall where these two boats were originally built.
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