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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
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
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
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
exhibition moves to YSP 14 Sept – 3 November; include a public portrait sitting 31 Oct/1st November and a portrait teaching date on 2nd November
Sculpture Series Heads: Woking 17 July
new exhibition until 18th August to coincide with publication of catalogue in association with Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Lightbox Gallery and Museum.
summer sittings
Dame Fiona Reynolds recently sat for the Environment Series Heads, and Charles Saumarez Smith is a recent invited sitter.
To YSP: 2013 launches, exhibitions and teaching
An exciting year in preparation, with the last two heads of the Sculpture Series being completed and a Times photographer documenting progress of the critic sitter, Nancy Durrant, at Fittleworth in February. The Surrey University acquisition of the ‘Charmer’ bronze relief has been delivered but not yet sited. The Hindhead carving experience has been hard […]
Notes on carving Wight Man, Feb 2006
This block was difficult to start; it had provenance, value and rarity, which has made the process of carving harder. Most of my blocks are mean lumps, perhaps damaged and rejected by others, bartered or found. That it had been sitting waiting for 50 years just added to that pressure – can one do it […]