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Works that are to big to keep
inside, grand in scale, icons of events or times passed.
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 Iron Horses The
first Iron Horse was created as a landmark for the Paddock Restaurant
in Greenwood Ontario in 1967. The horse was created from automotive
scrap. It now rests in the collection of S. Bruce Mcglaughlin in Mississauga
Ontario. The second horse (pictured) is on display at the Greenwood
Racetrack in London Ontario
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Yellow Dandelions in a
Green field
Yellow Dandelions in a
Green field was created
from the frame members of a 1927 bus. This simple piece won he best sculpture award at
the Toronto City Hall outdoor sculpture show in 1969.
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 Lunar Lander
In 1971 Bill created a full sized replica of the Lunar Lander for two
reasons, he needed an extra room for his growing family near their one
room schoolhouse in Brougham Ontario, and secondly to create a monument
to the new age of space exploration. This piece was later purchased by
the Japanese as part of the Great Space Shuttle Exhibit of 1983, and traveled
through five cities in Japan. The Lander was later donated to and is
currently on display at the Oklahoma Aviation and Space hall of
Fame.
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 Transcending the Traffic
Answering the need for the vertical element for the Land
Transportation Plaza at Expo 86 in Vancouver Lishman's team created
Transcending the traffic. Fifty five steel figures ascend the 86 foot high
steel tower . The Sculptures devolve from cars in a traffic jam to a mass
of destroyed automobile parts and end up in human forms. It is a
monument to the de-evolution of the wheel and a celebration of our best
land transportation, our legs. The top figure was inspired by the legs
of Tina Turner. All the Figures are currently on display at
Lishman's home in Purple Hill Ontario. Click on the thumbnail images
below to see bigger pictures.
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 AUTOHENGE
Created ayear prior to it's brother Carhenge in
Nebraska, autohenge is a full scale replica of Britain's famed
Stonehenge. Classified as "the finest rendition of
stonehenge anywhere" by Professor Christopher Chippendale of
Cambridge University, its photo graces the cover of his book, Visions
of Stonehenge. Located on a grassy knoll, just north of Oshawa,
Canada's automobile manufacturing center, Autohenge existed for five
years and attracted tourists from around the world. Click the small
images below to enlarge
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 Hasta La Vista Baby This piece is a 22 foot high wire-frame monument
to pregnancy that features a life sized male fetus in the image of
Arnold Swarzenegger. First exhibited at the Minstry of Finanace building
in Oshawa Ontario, the piece caused a minor controversy and was almost
moved to the Minstry of Labour (joke)
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 Icehenge
Quarried from the foot thick ice of lake Scugog in mid Winter,
Icehenge was created by 2 dozen modern day Ice Druids in 3 days. It
existed for two more before it sank into the murky depths at the foot of
Queen Street Port Perry.
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