The Royal Over-Seas League
The Elizabeth Landmark is featured in the latest issue of Overseas, the magazine published by the Royal Over-Seas League
The Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) is a not-for-profit members’ organisation, dedicated to championing international friendship and understanding within the Commonwealth and beyond.
For over seventy years, ROSL has supported the careers of young musicians and artists in the Commonwealth and more recently Europe and the USA, through a prestigious annual programme of competitions, scholarships, residencies, concerts and events.
Towering starkly against the brooding landscape of the Northumberland moors, the Elizabeth Landmark sculpture has been designed in tribute to the life of our former patron, the late HM Queen Elizabeth II, and will shortly be under construction.
It will ‘celebrate the unity, heritage and diversity of The Commonwealth and pay respect to Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning British monarch, who offered leadership and guidance to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth for 70 years’.
The project, led and patronised by ROSL member Viscount Devonport will see the
construction of the architecturally striking sculpture in the wild and beautiful moorlands of Cold Law, Northumberland, England’s most northerly county.
Made from weathering steel in reference to historic local industries, and surrounded by pathways of local sandstone, the structure will stand at 55m high, and seeks to complement the starkness of its surrounding landscape.
Designer, artist Simon Hitchens, who has created striking artworks currently on display in King’s Cross, Kensington and Cambridge says, ‘imagine that a giant has cut a thin slice through Cold Law hill and elevated one end so that it now points to the sun at its zenith on Midsummer Day. Made from Corten weathering steel, this elevated slice of hill is rich orange/red in colour.’