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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

The secret sculpture thousands walk past each day

A piece of art that thousands of people walk past in Liverpool everyday faces an uncertain future.

Known as Ray and Julie, the open-air sculpture is made up of two iron chairs facing each other that were installed on a patch of land in London Road back in 1995.

Taking its name from a random piece of graffiti that was painted on the wall at the back of the plot, the sculpture has gone from temporary space filler to cultural conversation piece over its lifetime. It was the vision of married artists Alan Dunn and Brigitte Jurack.

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