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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 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