The Yellow Lamb Banana is moving to Garston - that's official

At the South Liverpool Business Leaders meeting on Thursday, Garston Artist Alex Corina presented Council Leader Councillor Warren Bradley with a picture produced to Celebrate Liverpool Capital of Culture. The print Trojan Lamb Banana by artist Chris Vine is one of twelve Chris is working on up to the Capital of Culture 2008. The first four can be seen at 33-45 Parr Street. Alex Corina who has led the campaign for the Lamb Banana to be returned to it's spiritual home asked Councillor Bradley when is it coming home to Garston?

Councillor Bradley responded, "I think it's a great idea. I will go away and work on it with colleagues. We recently moved the Yellow Submarine to John Lennon airport. Garston will be the first, lets move it around the city so communities can benefit from what has become a city icon. I remember when the Lamb Banana first appeared people hated it and complained. If you tried to take it away now there would be a public outcry."

Professor John Ashton Director of Public Health for the North West and supporter of the campaign said, "It's fantastic, Garston would make a perfect home for the Lamb Banana" explaining "that the ship owner Sir Alfred Lewis Jones responsible, was a pioneer who not only imported and popularised the banana as a nutritional source of food for the working classes but was a founder of the school of tropical medicine in 1899 and also gave his name to the hospital in Garston."

Alex Corina commented, "I was surprised, its great news. The Yellow Lamb Banana has become an icon representing Garston and Liverpool's heritage of exporting lambs and importing bananas that combines both with humour. The other link is that not only was Garston docks the route for exporting importing, but that the sculpture was made in Garston at the old Bryant and May Factory."

The Tale of the Trojan Lamb Banana (see image above)

The Trojan Lamb Banana has been wheeled into the City of Liverpool and placed on St. George's 'Greek Plateau'. Like the Trojan Horse it stands and waits. In the dead of night the clocks of the Liver Building are twinkling and the people of Liverpool are fast asleep. All of a sudden a yellow door on the side of the Lamb Banana opens; a red ladder is pushed out and a bunch of scaled-down copies of itself are released among the Corinthian and Ionic columns of the Walker Gallery and St. George's Hall. The frisky little lambs take a quick sniff around and, with much bleating and excitement, disperse to create as much artistic havoc as is possible throughout the City of Liverpool.

A Limited Edition of prints of this painting are available.

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