Song of Sisyphus

DOUG COCKER

Song of Sisyphus

This sculpture was formerly located near Overton Lake in Ferry Meadows Country Park in the 1980s. It is thought to have been craved in Ferry Meadows and installed in 1988. It was exhibited there for over 20 years and decommissioned in 2011¹. The whereabouts and current location are unknown.

The Song of Sisyphus was a gigantic sculpture by Doug Cocker. His artwork frequently addresses current social and political themes, such as State of a Nation, which was made in 1986 and shows a temple on rockers with a wrecking ball wedged between the columns. Song of Sisyphus, an almost totemic sculpture created under Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative administration, has a primal and political presence.².

About Doug Cocker
Doug Cocker was born in Perthshire, Scotland in 1945. He studied sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and worked as a lecturer at Nene College in Northampton from 1972 to 1982. Doug Cocker has had a long and successful career, which has included teaching, residencies, private and public commissions, and gallery exhibitions. He was elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1984³. Doug Cocker’s studio, a renovated studio in Lundie, is located in a rural setting in Coupar Angus, north of Dundee⁴.

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