Beauty in Benches

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The BookBench Trail brings sublime sculpture and its adventurous art to Aberdeenshire and beyond.

The trail runs from July to September 2025, after which each bench will be auctioned to raise funds for CLAN, a leading local cancer support charity.

A small selection of Aberdeen central BookBenches are featured below. More information: CLAN website

Aberdeen City Centre

A blue bench with paintings of sea creatures including an octopus, sea snail, jellyfish, crab and dolphin. Beyond the sea there is sand and a lighthouse
You’ve Got a Friend by Emma McHardy (by the Bon Accord Centre rainbow steps)
A painting of a ship and anchor surrounded by sea creatures including an octopus, crab, seahorse and jellyfish
A painting of a seagull on a rock
A painting of an orange octopus and an orange starfish
A painting of an orange seahorse
A blue and purple bench with a woman with very long hair swimming with waves around her and a moon overhead
Dream by Fiona Chance (outside Aberdeen Arts Centre)
A blue background with a golden border and the word Dream
The back of the Dream bench
A black bench featuring images of a witch, a fountain pen, a musical note, the eyes of a cat, a steam train, a red poppy, a pumpkin and a streetlight
From Page to Stage by Gill Prendergast (above Union Terrace Gardens)
a painting of the amber eyes of a black cat with white stripes around the eyes
a painting of a candle lit streetlight with a halo of white and yellow around it
A bright blue painted bench with images from the 1980s including colourful cassette tape, record, glasses, giant mobile phone, landline telephone with dial, TV with aerial and guitar
Back to the 80s by Hannah Jayne Lewin (at Union Square, at ground floor car park entrance)
a pink cassette tape, blue glasses and a star with rainbow colours
a figure with headphones, yellow jumper with heart on it, dark pink leggings, orange legwarmers and blue rollerskates
a green watch with 80s written on its face
a yellow smiling face
a bench painted to look like a black piano with music notes on a stand and black and white keys
Keys to the World of Music by Megan Reilly (near Marischal College on Broad Street)
gold musical notes against a black background
sheetmusic with musical notes
a white bench with oldfashioned handwriting and pictures of a yellow, pink and blue castle
These Walls Are Alive by Millar Creative (outside the Art Gallery)
a deep red background with gold text stating We Have Many Stories to Tell ... Just Listen
a pink castle with turrets and balustrades

Duthie Park

A white bench covered with pictures of wildflowers, bees, butterflies and other insects
Wonderful Wildflowers by Johanna Basford

Central Library – Benches by School Pupils

A blue background is overlaid by a grey circle with a yellow and grey flower and lettering Bervie Primary School Spero Mellora
A painting of a village street with church, shop and house with Phoenix sign

Where We Belong by Bervie Primary School

A sun with yellow and tartan rays setting over a blue sea with sand in the foreground
A school building surrounded by blue with yellow and orange figures in the foreground

Scotland in Our Hands by Bucksburn Academy

Children and animals in a blue sky with the top of a blue and green planet below
Sealife in a blue ocean with green plants beneath

The Wild Adventure of Reading by Kinellar Primary

Cats and grey animals on a white background under trees and a blue sky with words You Believe It You Can Achieve It
A ginger cat with a pink thought bubble that states Reading is Magical!
Cats and grey animals on a white background under trees and a blue sky with stars and a moon

Read, Believe and Achieve by Loirston Primary

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