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Alla Sec, sited in the pond at Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen.
Alla Sec, sited in the pond at Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen.
Alla Sec, sited in the pond at Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen.

Alla Sec,
sited in the pond at Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen.

Artist (Dallas, Texas, USA, 1939 - 1998)
Date1986
Object NameSculpture
Mediumstone
ClassificationsSculptures
AcquisitionOwned by Aberdeen City Council under the curatorial care of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.
Object numberABDCC001122
About MeBradford Graves was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1939, and in 1986 attended a symposium at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden. Whilst there he created 'Alla Sec', an abstract sculpture which is inscribed and carved with Celtic patterns. Whilst sculpting Graves says that the basis for his art is the 'people, cultures, other objects, past events' which one carries with one. In this case the inspiration must have come from the North East of Scotland's Pictish Past.

This sculpture which comprises two flat stones, inscribed and carved with a Celtic pattern, originally stood in Duthie Park but was removed and re-erected in Hazelhead Park in 1992.

Set in a large pond, the work became a fountain piece, with a water jet playing on the surfaces of the stones. It is planned to reinstall the fountain as part of the planned refurbishment of the restaurant and surrounding area through 2012-13.