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2023 – portraiture classes July 2nd and Sept 15/16th
contact for more details; at West Dean College in the South Downs National Park
2022/3 – Art Society Heads Up! project
90 children in Y5 and 6; three schools. Developing the Bury project of 2021 further and deeper with schools in West Sussex. Two schools completed the sessions (individual heads and a communal lifesize head worked on by all pupils) in Autumn ’22 and one goes in Spring ’23.
2021 – new public work starting, South Downs National Park
See the artist’s journal here: https://lordspiece.wordpress.com
2021 – Communal Head project
Bury School West Sussex funded by Young Arts charity intro assembly + 2 mornings with Y5/6 students working from publically-known sitter; communally-rendered life-sized head in clay whilst children were also working on their own individual smaller heads. Terracotta head will be presented back to school once hollowed, fired and mounted.
2020 – teaching programmed
Observational courses at West Dean – 1 day (hands and feet) at end of October and 3 day portraiture in the New Year.
2019 – ‘Fluvius’ public sculpture at Horsham
The archived diary of the creation of the work carved on site over a calendar year and involving the local community throughout: https://horshamsculpture.wordpress.com
Commission for The Cart Shed charity
A sculpture to respond to the charity which uses woodlands as a salve to the rigours of life: see http://cartshedsculpture.wordpress.com
Out of Nature October 2017 exhibition Herefordshire
see www.outofnature.org.uk – in residency 1-10 Oct
The naming of the sculpture on the South Downs at Slindon
The sculpture at Slindon will be unveiled on 17th February 2016 at noon. The National Trust’s Rise of Northwood – the replanting of the majority of a historic woodland lost in the first and second world wars – was made possible by a bequest from John Springthorpe Hunt, who loved the South Downs. An unplanned […]
return to The Lightbox Gallery, Woking for day sculpture course – Oct 17th 2015
contact them quickly; a few spaces left
‘Out of Nature’ residency in Herefordshire October 3-11th 2015
http://outofnature.org.uk
new block at Slindon
The National Trust ‘Rise of Northwood’ will see a new commemorative marker emerging as the replanting begins. See http://slindonsculpture.wordpress.com for diary/archive of sculptor’s progress.
Public Sculpture in Pulborough? Have your say
see http://PulboroughSculpture.wordpress.com
update – Pulborough block
Still working a day a week at RH20 2EL until November 2014. Several cash pledges have already been made to the stone staying in the Arun Valley area.
Live sitting – Yorkshire Sculpture Park 31 Oct & 1 Nov 2013
Frieze Sculpture Park and YSP Curator Clare Lilley sits 11am-2pm with a live video feed and questions after each session
Lewes Group moves to Lewes; Southover Grange Gardens
now on a two year loan to Lewes District Council, situated in a beautiful small park
An article in The Times 22.9.13
see in ‘Publicity’ archive above
new 3 tonne block at Pulborough Brooks RSPB
working at RH20 2EL on Saturday mornings into the winter. For a linked film see the blog at: http://jonedgar.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/6000-years-apart/
New publication and exhibition
A new 40 page publication by Peter Hall and Marilyn Scott – with an introduction by Yorkshire Sculpture Park curator Helen Pheby – is unveiled for the travelling exhibition which opens on Wednesday 17th July at Woking Lightbox. It will be available at an exhibition-discounted rate of £5 from The Lightbox or later at Yorkshire […]