MOVING SCULPTURE AND PUBLIC ART: WHAT GALLERIES AND COMMISSIONERS NEED FROM A HAULAGE PARTNER

Most container suppliers will deliver to kerbside. Drop it on the road, tilt it off the back, and leave.

Moving a sculpture is not the same as moving a load.

The distinction matters more than it might first appear. A load has a weight, a dimension, a destination. A sculpture has all of those things — and also a material with specific structural properties, a centre of gravity that may bear no obvious relationship to the piece's outer form, a surface that cannot be touched in the wrong place, and a value that is frequently impossible to replace.