A 100-metre portrait etched in sand pays tribute to David Attenborough at 100
Artists have marked Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday with an 80-metre portrait raked into the sand at Morecambe Bay — a tribute that was almost invisible from the ground but stunning from above.
The artwork, created on Morecambe’s South Beach, depicts the broadcaster’s face alongside one of his most quoted environmental lines.
The artists behind the piece Sand In Your Eye, are a collective with a track record of large-scale coastal commissions.
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Jamie Wardley, credited with the work, described Attenborough as “a global icon” who had placed climate change “front and centre of the public’s consciousness.”
The choice of medium — vast, temporary, tide-dependent — feels entirely deliberate for a man whose life’s work has been a sustained argument for paying attention to the natural world before it disappears.
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