Shark In Roof Oxford

The headington shark proper name untitled 1986 is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 new high street headington oxford england depicting a large shark embedded head first in the roof of a house.

Shark in roof oxford.

For 35 years i ve been visiting oxford and as long as i can remember mber the big sharks diving into the roof oxford wouldn t be oxford without the shark a very unusual sight to see. The people who put it there said something like this. Broadcaster and local journalist bill heine had the. Bill heine 73 has applied to have.

It is saying something about cnd nuclear power chernobyl and nagasaki. One drizzly afternoon this past april anne whitehouse and john buckley stood outside a two story brick house on new high street in the english suburb of headington oxford. It s pretty cool to see a shark sticking out of a roof a great photo opportunity super easy to find as it s on a residential street. The shark was to express someone feeling totally impotent and ripping a hole in their roof out of a sense of impotence and anger and desperation.

The house is typical. A house with a 25ft great white shark sticking out of its roof could be made a national treasure by the same council which wanted it torn down. A terminally ill man whose house has become a tourist attraction with a 25 foot shark in the roof has launched a bid to preserve the monument after his death.