Bruce’s Web Interactive Art & Augmented Reality Trail is an outdoor arts trail with accompanying smartphone app to commemorate the 750th Anniversary of King Robert the Bruce in North Carrick, South Ayrshire. Trail goers can discover nine new pieces of outdoor art using the Bruce’s Web app with fun augmented reality elements and gaming challenges!
The Sculptures
Each piece varies in scale and materials and was designed to complement and enhance the natural landscape in a sustainable way, and link to Robert the Bruce’s life in the area.
Turnberry – Sea Gate – The Birth
Dunure – The Fish & Fire – The Feeding
Kirkoswald – Droplets – The Baptism
Maidens – Birlinn Prow – The Landing
Straiton – Twa Aixes – The Camp
Crosshill – Whitebred Shorthorn Cow – The Grazing
Kirkmichael – Spider – Ettercap
Minishant – War Horse – Cogaidh
Maybole – Mercat Cross Pillar – Lion of Carrick
Thanks to funding from the UK Government and North Carrick Community Benefit Company (NCCBC), CRAG Community Arts SCIO were awarded the contract to deliver the North Carrick Communities Arts Trail, with Bruce 750 themed sculptures across ‘Bruce’s Web’.
With the Maybole sculpture constructed separately by local artist John McKenna, the sculptures in the eight surrounding villages were designed through a consultation process with each of the North Carrick communities.
This process has been fascinating, with CRAG artist David Powell – known for his Culzean and Rozelle steel and willow sculptures – visiting each of the six primary schools to discuss the Bruce 750 project while providing an insight to his own work practice as an artist.
