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Aug 16, 20221 min read

Horse Trust Memorial Sculpture Uncle George - Shetland Pony

The Horse Trust’s oldest resident, Uncle George, has been put to sleep at the age of 43. The much-loved Shetland was taken in by the...

Aug 16, 20222 min read

Solidarity - The Langley Park Miner

A memorial sculpture by Dr Ron Lawson of Stanson Art to honour a village’s miners has been unveiled, more than 40 years after its pit...

Aug 16, 20222 min read

Locomotive Breath - Collaborative and Commemorative Public Art

2022 the bicentenary of the Hetton to Sunderland railway. To mark the celebration I was commissioned to design and fabricate a stylised...

Aug 15, 202212 min read

Contemporary Public Art Practice - Reflections on 'Joy'

‘I explain the guiding principle of my work to myself as ‘truth to material’… but I need to be careful here, because I don’t want to give...

Aug 15, 20222 min read

Keeping it in the Family. Public art representing community, place and industrial heritage.

It's not often an artist gets the opportunity to create a very personal legacy work in the context of commissioned public art, so when...