 will be exhibited in the Grand Yard of Castle Coole in Enniskillen as part of the 

, the world’s first annual festival to celebrate the work and influence of Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett.

Commissioned for the inaugral festival in 2013, 

 is made from 37 sections of stainless steel. Gormley has said ‘the tree I have designed as a stage element for Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ accepts its status as an image, and therefore its artificiality, but nevertheless, evokes place-ness or rooted-ness in an otherwise object-free horizontal plain. It is almost not a tree at all but an aerial or mast, which makes the same connection between sky and earth. It becomes about transmission or extraction rather than being a romantic image of nature.’

Photograph: Happy Days Festival, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Installation view. 
