Venus and Cupid (sculpture)

The sculpture depicts a seated woman, facing out to sea, holding the hands of a child who is suspended in the air extending horizontally from her arms, as if being swung round.

[1] It was erected in 2005 on Scalestone Point, site of a former gun emplacement, between the coast road and the sea, and commemorates the 24 cockle-pickers who died in the bay in 2004.

[5] It was moved temporarily into the Arndale Centre in Morecambe in November 2018, for repair,[6] and was returned to the sea front in June 2019.

The sculptor, Shane Johnstone, used the Japanese technique of kintsugi, replacing the missing tiles with gold leaf to celebrate the repair rather than attempting to hide it.

His work includes murals, mosaic work, sculpture and stained glass and he has been involved in many community art projects, including a 2015 piece of public art in Morecambe's West End, and the renovation of Ulverston's statue of Laurel and Hardy.