Sculptor: Heisenberg (Matt Baker and Dan Dubowitz)
Date: 2002
Location: At corner of Kidston Terrace and Malta Terrace.
Description: The Gatekeeper is the product of Dan Dubovitz and Matt Baker, known as Heisenberg. Comprising three parts – a suspended sculpture (cast in bronze), a framed picture (illuminated at night) and a small crypt in the foundations underneath the photograph.
The Gatekeeper symbolises the notion of Gorbals as a gateway for Irish, Jewish and Asian immigrant communities over the centuries. Beneath the whole structure lies a crypt containing burned remains of objects donated by members of the Gorbals community.
The artworks, unveiled in 2002, were commissioned by the Crown Street Regeneration Project as part of a programme of rebuilding in the area and improving its image.