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An artwork on water by Chinneck, The Looping Boat takes the form of a 13-metre-long canal boat, whose body behaves in an extraordinary way, performing a six metre-high, gravity-defying, loop-the-loop.

Painted in traditional canal boat colours by a specialist canal boat signwriter and featuring the Tudor Rose (the assay mark of Sheffield), the boat also bears the name ‘The Industry’, after the first vessel to navigate the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal when it opened in 1819.

Located on the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, between locks 4 and 5, near to Meadowhall Shopping Centre, the static artwork appears to be floating on the canal and is positioned away from the navigable channel of the canal.

The project is co-funded by British Land and by energy company E.ON, who committed to creating a public artwork as part of its redevelopment of the Blackburn Meadows site, the artwork is welcomed by our charity, Canal & River Trust. Members of the Tinsley Art Project Board commissioned the artist. The Board includes Sheffield City Council, Tinsley Forum, Canal & River Trust, and the project co-funders British Land and E.ON.

Text taken from the Canal & River Trust website: Link