The Humanity Monument

The Humanity Monument by Dr. Douglas Clark

Ultra-high brilliance LEDs, Steel and Wood. 2.4 metres x 1.4 metres.

The question "Where Is Your Humanity?" is not meant to be accusatorial, rather a suggestion that we should look at ourselves, look at our attitudes. Yet to some, it may well be seen as accusatorial but surely, little introspection will do no harm to anyone?

What the artist says about Dr. Douglas Clark

“As much as I would like to say I've been an artist since school days, that's not the case. My first love was the sea and I spent many years crossing oceans to obscure places for a living. It was exposure to other cultures that drove my curiosity.

Later in life I wanted to do something that had been nagging away at me for years. I strove to become an artist... Not the first seaman to want to be an artist, there's famously Lucien Freud and Alfred Wallis to name but two.

So I went to art school in 2003 and graduated with a BA in 2006. Thought I could do a little better, so gained a Masters in 2008 and now have a Doctorate.... that wasn't the original idea when I ran away to sea at 16 or even when I started at art school.

If anyone wants to check my doctoral thesis it is 'The Neo-Monument - Monuments of Dissent and their Emergence in the late 20th and early 21st Century' - its a corker.”

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You’ll spot more of Doug’s work, from the ‘Architectural Apparatus No.6’ project, in the gardens of BSU’s Sion Hill campus when you visit I’m Only Human. (2 large sculptures to your left as you enter the main gate)