MOTHS & TOADS SCULPTURE FINDER
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
LARKIN WITH TOADS / A MOTH FOR AMY
Although Hull’s two colourful animal sculpture projects were planned to last only a few months, these remarkable Toads and Moths are set to stay for a while longer yet! After each project, many of the sculptures were auctioned and moved to new locations. Whilst some are now in private homes and gardens, many more can be seen from roads and footpaths around the area. You can use this simple Sculpture Finder to locate all the public Moths and Toads.
Larkin with Toads was the first of the large scale, mass participation public art events that populated Hull and the East Riding with 40 enormous decorated toads, initially for 10 weeks during summer 2010. The project was part of Larkin25, a six month festival commemorating the life and work of the poet, novelist, librarian and jazz critic, Philip Larkin, marking the 25th anniversary of his death.
Find out more about Larkin with Toads at philiplarkin.com/larkin-with-toads
A Moth for Amy helped to mark the 75th Anniversary of the tragic and untimely death of Hull heroine, Amy Johnson, and bring her remarkable life to the attention of people across the city, the region, the country and the world! The 2016 Amy Johnson Festival of the Arts and Engineering celebrated this wonderful woman and her amazing achievements.
Fifty-nine decorated moths appeared across Hull, East Yorkshire, and some key locations across England. One more, Stop me and buy one, was added in 2020 to bring the total to 60 – referencing Amy’s de Havilland DH60 Gipsy Moth, Jason, the plane she flew to Australia on her record breaking solo flight.
City Centre Moths
Artist: Hannah van Green
Sponsor: Green Port Hull
Location: Central Library, Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF
On the 2nd floor landing outside the Makerspace area, view anytime the library is open.
Artist: Alan Thorley
Sponsor: Private Sponsor
Location: Hull Truck Theatre, 50 Ferensway, HU2 8LB
Artist: J Zeller-Jaques
Sponsor: HEYHA Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitality Association
Location: Holiday Inn Express, 80 Ferensway, HU2 8LN
On display in the hotel foyer which is open to the public.
Design by: Jo Cruickshanks
Artist: Saffron Waghorn
Sponsor: St Stephen’s Shopping Centre
Location: St Stephen’s Shopping Centre, Ferensway, HU2 8LN
Towards the Park Street end of the shopping centre, near the hanging ‘replica’ Jason, Amy Johnson’s plane. On view 24/7.
Artist: Cathy Simpson
Sponsor: Marion Owen Travel
Location: Marion Owen Travel, 23 Portland Street, HU2 8JX
View Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm – visitors welcome.
Artist: Mik Richardson
Sponsor: Prospect Centre
Location: West Street Entrance, Prospect Centre, HU2 8PP
Design Concept: Wilberforce Health Centre staff
Artist: Clare Holdstock
Sponsor: Hull Citycare Ltd
Location: Wilberforce Health Centre, Story Street, HU1 3SA
Inside the building in the main atrium. The building is open 08.00 – 20.00, 7 days a week (including all weekends and bank holidays). No dogs (except guide dogs) in the building as it is a health building.
Artist: Saffron Waghorn
Sponsor: Allenby Commercial
Location: 93-95 Alfred Gelder St, HU1 1EP
Artist: Vicky O’Grady
Sponsor: ARCO Ltd
Location: ARCO, 1 The Dock, Queens Street, HU1 1UU until December 2020, then ARCO HQ, 1 Blackfriargate, HU1 1BH
Artist: Charles Huckvale
Sponsor: Hudgell Solicitors
Location: 2, The Dock, 46 Humber St, HU1 1TU
Artist: Saffron Waghorn
Sponsor: Kingston Retail Park
Location: 2 Blanket Row, Fruit Market, HU1 1AX
Artist: Deven Burke
Sponsor: Spencer Group
Location: One Humber Quays, Wellington Street West, HU1 2BN
Located on an outside column at the north east corner of the building.
Artist: Denise McCoid
Sponsor: Smailes Goldie Group
Location: Regent’s Court, Princess Street, HU2 8BA
Visible from Freetown Way (A165), through railings.
Artist: Pinky
Sponsor: Rainbow Professional Ltd
Location: 131 Cumberland Street, HU2 0PP
View from Cumberland Street on the factory building.
Citywide Moths
Artist: Charlie Fogg
Sponsor: Smith & Nephew
Location: Smith & Nephew, Jackson Street, HU3 2BP
View from junction of Jackson Street and Tadman Street.
Artist: Hannah van Green
Sponsor: Roach Bros. (Curers) Ltd
Location: Havelock Street, HU3 4JH
View from the street. A 160 year old fish business and still a family firm using Amy Johnson’s father’s old AJK (Andrew Johnson Knudtzon Ltd) cold store on the Boulevard.
Design by: Sophie Green
Artist: Bridget Murray
Sponsor: Places for People
Location: Hird Ltd, English Street, HU3 2BS
View from English Street.
Design by: Graham Fisher
Artist: ::S12::
Sponsor: Strata Holdings Ltd.
Location: Strata House, 300 Hawthorn Avenue, HU3 5LL
View from Hawthorn Avenue.
Design by: Evolve
Artist: Rich Pennington
Sponsor: City Health Care Partnership CIC
Location: City Health Care Partnership, 5 Beacon Way, Brighton Street, HU3 4AE
Design by: Jo Cruickshanks
Artist: Saffron Waghorn
Sponsor: AFH Wealth Management
Location: 7 Beacon Way, Brighton Street, Hull HU3 4AE
Artist: Sophie Welton
Sponsor: Private Sponsor
Location: 47 Peel Street, Hull HU3 1QR
The design references the building’s history as an ice cream factory and its location on the site of the Hull Zoological Gardens.
Artist: Peter Ronald Coates
Sponsor: Amy Johnson Festival
Location: 9 – 11 Wellington Street, Fruit Market, HU1 1UF until Autumn 2020, then at 73 Pearson Park, HU5 2TQ
View from Pearson Avenue.
Artist: Liz Dees
Sponsor: University of Hull
Location: Blackburn Building, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, HU6 7R
Designed with Pupils from Cleeve Primary School
Artist: Natalie Guy
Sponsor: North Point Shopping Centre
Location: Main Atrium, North Point Shopping Centre, Goodhart Road, Bransholme, HU7 4EE
View during normal shopping centre opening hours.
Artist: Sue Kershaw
Sponsor: NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group
Location: South Bransholme Health Centre, Goodhart Road, Bransholme, HU7 4DW
Inside the building in the main atrium. The building is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (including all weekends and bank holidays). No dogs (except guide dogs) in the building as it is a health building.
NHS CCG chose to sponsor this unusual, eye-catching mosaic decorated moth, as this supports our wider aspirations to create a healthier Hull.
Artist: Keiron Reilly & Lynsey Brecknell
Sponsor: HETA (Humberside Engineering Training Association)
Location: 27-31 Dansom Lane South, Hull HU8 7LA
Visitors are welcome to come and see Amy Did It but will need to book a visit by emailing us via the website www.heta.co.uk or phoning 01482 372672
Artist: Nick Murley
Sponsor: Persona
Location: L.A.Hall (Hull) Ltd, 19-27 Lime Street, HU8 7AB
Visitors welcome during normal working hours of 8.00 – 5.00 weekdays and occasional Saturday mornings. Access through the yard entrance from Spyvee Street.
Design by: Rebecca Dennison
Artist: Doug Smelt
Sponsor: Hampton by Hilton Humberside Airport
Location: 20 Lime Tree Avenue, Holderness Road, HU8 8QD
Design by: Susan Webber
Artist: Domanic Li
Sponsor: Amy Johnson Festival
Location: Sutton Mortgage Brokers, 366 Holderness Road, HU9 3DL
Artist: Joelle Harris
Sponsor: Science Museum London
Location: Aspire Academy, 351 Annandale Road, HU9 5DE
View from the main road. The public should not enter the school grounds.
Artists: Dalo
Sponsor: Private Sponsor
Location: Hallgate Primary School, Hallgate, Cottingham HU16 4DD
View through school gates from the public footpath accessed via King Street, and up closer once a year at the school’s Summer Fair on the first Saturday each July.
Artist: Julia Allum
Sponsor: Persona
Location: Larards Lets, The Property Centre, 24 Hull Road, Hessle, HU13 0AH
Artist: Isaac Acheampong
Sponsor: Strata Homes
Location: Informed Financial Planning, 8 Waterside Park, Livingstone Road, Hessle, HU13 0EG
Artist: Liz Dorton and pupils from All Saints Primary School, Hessle
Sponsor: Wykeland Group
Location: Bridgehead Woodland Trail, Bridgehead Business Park, 408 Boothferry Rd, Hessle HU13 0LN
Pedestrian access only.
Inspired by pre-Wright Brothers flying machines and cartoonist Ronald Searle and his Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, pupils from All Saints Primary School came up with their ideas for how to decorate the moth, with help from artist Liz Dorton.
Bridgehead Woodland Trail is a 1km wildlife walk that circles the Bridgehead Business Park, providing a perfect place for both workers and visitors to escape. With the help of pupils from nearby schools, All Saints Primary and Hessle High, a collection of artworks has been added along the route. There are little huts made from branches to wander in and out of, bug hotels to explore, a dinosaur egg nest, butterfly and moth sculpture to spot and fancy bird feeding stands to watch the wide variety of birds pecking away.
Beverley & Beyond Moths
Artist: Saffron Waghorn
Sponsor: Beverley Racecourse
Location: Beverley Racecourse, York Road, Beverley HU17 8QZ
Artist: Laura Beardshaw
Sponsor: Bostonair Group Ltd
Location: Norwood House, Norwood, Beverley, East Yorkshire HU17 9ET
Artist: Liz Dorton and pupils from St Nicholas Primary School, Beverley
Sponsor: Wykeland Group
Location: Flemingate Shopping Centre, 23 A Chantry Lane, Beverley HU17 0EE
Pedestrian access only, the Moth is on the side of Armstrong House.
The theme was inspired by aviation engineer, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. De Havilland was a keen collector of moths, reflecting his designs and the naming of his aircraft. Pupils from St Nicholas Junior School came up with ideas for how to decorate the moth, with help from local artist Liz Dorton.
Flemingate has a host of big name stores and places to eat. Its range of leisure facilities includes the Parkway Cinema, InflataNation and a 24hour gym, Anytime Fitness. Overnight visitors can stay at the Premier Inn. Flemingate has a convenient 500-space multi-storey car park.
Artist: Pinky
Sponsor: KCOM
Location: Swanland Primary School, Tranby Lane, Swanland HU14 3NE
View from Tranby Lane. No access to school grounds.
Artist: Carolyn Short
Sponsor: Williamsons Solicitors
Location: ICF Financial Services Ltd, 2 Redcliff Road, Melton, HU14 3RS
View from Monks Way West.
Design Concept: Greatfield Residents
Artist: Jemma Brown
Sponsor: Greatfield Big Local
Location: Milestone Farm, Everthorpe, HU15 2AP
On the north side of the garage block and visible over the garden wall from High Road, Everthorpe. Also at this location is The Topographical Toad. There is no access permitted to the garden.
Artist: Jemima Cholmondeley-Smith
Sponsor: Sewerby Hall and Gardens ERYC
Location: Sewerby Hall & Gardens Car Park, Church Lane, Sewerby, YO15 1EA
Design by: Jo Cruickshanks
Artist: Saffron Waghorn
Sponsor: The University of Sheffield
Location: The Diamond, University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
On the ground floor of the Diamond, open to the public during staffed hours.
Amy came to Sheffield to study Latin, French & Economics (as well as attending engineering lectures) and graduated in 1925.
City Centre Toads
Artists: Sue Kershaw and Victoria Merrett
Location: Streetlife Museum Gardens, High Street, HU1 1PS
Open Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sunday 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Artist: Hannah Cooper
Location: Brewery House, Silvester Street, The Maltings, HU1 3HA
View through glazed doors between 9am – 5pm (when gates are open)
Artists: Janis Goodman & Sarah Fisher
Location: Hull History Centre, Worship Street, HU2 8BG
Located outside, at the far end of the building’s distinctive arcade. Toad in the Hull arrived in June 2010 – just a few months after the Centre opened that January.
Citywide Toads
Artist: Oban Hogarth
Location: Pearson’s Bar, 6a Princes Ave, HU5 3QA
View from the public footpath.
Artist: Lonny Pop
Location: Bricknell Primary School, Bricknell Avenue, HU5 4ET
View from Bricknell Avenue – there is no public access to the school grounds.
Artist: Frances Kelly
Location: 105 Newland Park, HU5 2DT
The Larkin Toad sits on the first floor balcony at the front of the house where Larkin lived for the last eleven years of his life. View from the road only.
Artist: Rebecca Dennison
Location: Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, HU6 7RX
Viewable at all times that the library is open.
Artist: Mark Wigan
Location: Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, Hull University Business School, Esk Building, Cottingham Road, HU6 7RX
View Monday – Friday between 10am-5pm by the Student HUB.
Artists: Sarah Daniels and Sarah Fallowfield
Location: Malcolm West Forklifts Ltd, Bridge House, Goulton Street, HU3 4DL
View during office hours, Monday to Friday 7.30am to 5.00pm.
Designed by: Newington and St Andrews Young People’s Project
Artist: Liz Dees
Location: Network Young People’s Centre, 1 Massey Street, HU3 3LA
View through the fence at the rear of the project. Or come to the open community coffee morning, Thursdays from 10am-12pm, when you will be able to access the Cloister area of the building where Spacehopper is located.
Artist: Pinky
Location: The Bloc, Springfield Way, Anlaby, HU10 6RJ
View through glazed doors between 9am – 5pm (when main gates are open)
Artist: Pinkyvision
Location: Southlands Hall, 75 Thwaite Street, Cottingham, HU16 4RB
View from the road only – no access to the private grounds.
Beverley & Beyond Toads
Designed by: Nick & Mez of The Neat
Artist: Sarah Pennington
Location: Beverley Racecourse, York Road, Beverley, HU17 8QZ
View inside the main gates on Racedays only.
Artists: St Nicholas’ Primary School with Sarah Johnson
Location: St Nicholas Primary School, Holme Church Lane, Beverley, HU17 0QP
View from the public footpath – no public access to the school grounds.
Artist: Jemma Brown
Location: Milestone Farm, Everthorpe, HU15 2AP
On the north side of the garage block and visible over the garden wall from High Road, Everthorpe. Also at this location is the Amy Moth, Greatfield Blossom.
Please note: there is no access permitted to the garden.
Artists: Newington Primary School After School Club
Supported by The Arc Creative Team
Location: Billericay, Essex, CM11 1AS
View by arrangement only – contact Cathy or Alan on 07866 180908 or cathyandalan51@btinternet.com
Artist: Stephen MacKay
Location: Bannockburn, Stirling, Scotland FK7 8EW
Viewing by appointment only – telephone 01964 671575 to arrange.
The map and information about locations is correct at time of publication but may change for unforeseen reasons.
