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Jencks carved a wide and fat path across Scotland's former industrial heartlands, scooping up massive Public Art Commissions. He sometimes teamed-up with those annoying "new-style" companies whose names betray nothing about what they do, who is behind them or their actual purpose (eg. Carillion). These faceless companies seemed to appear out of nowhere and attracted massive government contracts for huge infrastructure projects. Jencks wasn't slow to hoover-up the commissions and the assistance of corporations and construction companies with lots of earth-moving equipment.

Kelty in Fife.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-the-scottish-world

Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-ueda

Jupiter Artland in West Lothian.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-jupiter-artland

Then the Crawick Multiverse at Sanquar/ Kirkonnel.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-crawick-multiverse

The Rail Garden of Scottish Worthies at Dumfries.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-scottish-worthies

Then Dumfries bought itself a Garden of Cosmic Speculation.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/the-garden-of-cosmic-speculation

Even a Maggie's Centre in Glasgow found itself drawn into Jencks' Charlie-Dimmock-finds-a-Spirograph-on-aceed nightmare.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-maggie-s-glasgow

A hospital in Dumfries found itself unable to escape Mr Jencks and his Plant Hire Company friends.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-doublewalk

Even where the Sark rins ower the Solway sands.... Jencks found a final commission in Scotland before he crossed the border and headed South.

https://www.charlesjencks.com/projects-gretna-landmark

There are probably more Jencks-Dimmock-Aceedscapes here in Scotland but I simply couldn't face looking.

Blimey I didn't realise he did so many! Yes after looking into Crawick last week, I also don't have appetite for looking at any more of Jencks' projects. At Crawick he seems to use the iconography of megalithic culture such as stone rows, stone circles and artifical mounds without any deeper thought or meaning. The only commendable thing is that the stone he used is local.