Location: Liverpool Moorfields Rail Station
A striking new piece of art has been unveiled at Moorfields station in Liverpool, the fourth in a Mererseytravel project to 'Animate the Underground', sited across the network's five underground stations.
The piece, by local artist Grant Searl, entitled ' The Birth of Liverpool; is an oil on canvas painting, which has been reproduced onto aluminium plate, and depicts the rich maritime history that can be traced back to Liverpool's birth as a vibrant port and city. This painting also celebrates the centenary of Liverpool's own Liver Building along with the iconic Liver Bird's which famously keep watch over the port, the city and it's people.
Merseytravel's 'Animate the Underground' commission will be made up of five pieces of visual art, each representing and reflecting very different themes. Each one will be accompanied by its very own riddle, which leads to a hidden word; when all five riddles have been solved they will form the basis of an answer to a very exciting 'Art on the Network' competition.
Full details of the competition will be released when the fifth and final piece is unveiled at Liverpool Central Station in August 2011, to coincide with the Liverpool Mathew Street Festival.
In the meantime, can you work out the riddle relating to the 'Birth of Liverpool' -
Riddle:
Creator and destroyer they're one in the same,
with a name that has fallen from fortune and fame.
Bearing the emblem from the kings of old,
in myths and legends their stories are told.
By now their creator is part of the city,
what was once a poem is now a ditty.