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ART IN THE PARK 2025
Sculpture Trail
Locations around Cannizaro Park
The sculpture trail starts at the recently renovated Millennium Fountain inside the entrance to Cannizaro Park. Continue to the Aviary and turn right down the path that leads to the Tennis Court and Keir Gardens, where workshops are taking place.
Be sure to visit the Community Sculpture, created during the first Art in the Park in 2021, then walk towards the Rose Garden and turn left down Maple Avenue. You will find sculptures all around this section of the park – keep an eye out for the wooden signs.
On Maple Avenue you will find the sculpture HQ where you can meet the sculptors to discuss and/or purchase their work.
The Sculptures
1. Millennium Fountain
Richard Rome
Location: Through gates from main entrance to park
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The recently restored Millennium Fountain by Richard Rome affectionately known as 'The Teapot’ was unveiled in 2001.
The fountain consists of an urn or teapot-like bronze fountain, with spouts and handles asymmetrically positioned, standing in a double-quatrefoil brick basin, painted green. The water wells from the interior, flowing over the urn while also pouring from spouts. The fountain was the result of a competition organised by the Friends of Cannizaro Park, with funds raised from the Constance Fund, a body which supports new sculpture for parks throughout the UK.
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Sculptor and teacher who attended St Albans and Chelsea Schools of Art, completing the postgraduate course at Chelsea in 1966. Went on to teach at many art colleges part- and full-time, including Brighton Polytechnic, Bath Academy, Rinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore, America, and Canterbury College of Art. He showed regularly from 1966 in group and solo shows indoors and outdoors. Among group exhibitions was inaugural show at Air Gallery, 1975, and Hayward Annual, 1979. Outdoor sculpture was shown at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 1978; Cannizaro Park, 1983; and Canterbury Cathedral, 1984. In 1985 shared a three-artist show at Woodlands Art Gallery. His solo shows included Serpentine Gallery, 1975, and University of Kent, 1977. Arts Council holds his work.
Underwater Creatures
Art in the Aviary. Kings College students in partnership with local schools
Location: Inside Aviary
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The Art in the Aviary scheme sees a variety of projects across the year. This display is from Kings College students in partnership with the Year 5&6 pupils of The Priory, Benedict Academy, Sacred Heart RC and Pelham Primary.
2, 23. Multiple Works
Jill Sutcliffe
Location: Copse past aviary and end of Maple Avenue
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The Frong Clusters are Sutcliffe’s interpretation of where “architecture meets nature”. They are inspired by the movement of a fern Frond and the spires of the Segrada Familia. They will sit amongst the trees, quietly and reach to the sky.
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A Flourish of Pods is a ground level installation of over 30 Pods and is inspired by natural movement. It is a celebration of the unseen undulating flow that exists in nature, that looks just right.
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Jill has always been passionate about working with clay, its therapeutic qualities inspire her to create. She takes the inanimate and brings it to life.
Each piece is built on a base which Jill uses like a blank canvas. She adds individually made clay elements, like brush strokes, to create either a natural flow or a specific form.
All of her pieces hand built and unique.
Jill devises and mixes her own glazes, a constant stream of testing and apprehension. Because of the complexity of her forms she uses the pouring method to glaze which is unpredictable and adds further excitement to the final piece.
Her choice of clay is stoneware. Because of its high firing temperature my pieces are frost resistant which allow them to live inside and out all year round.
Artists Website: jillsutcliffe4.carbonmade.com/
Instagram: @jillsutcliffe4
Edgar Peters
Andy Horne
Scattered through the whole trail on benches/ tree stumps…
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This piece stems from a novel written by Richard Brautigan (a prominent member of the counter-culture movement in America in the 1960s): ‘So The Wind Won’t Blow It All Away’. In the book, the main character remembers the name ‘Edgar Peters’, for reasons he can’t explain.
‘Another letter was from a man named Edgar Peters. I wonder why that name still sticks in my mind after all these years. I’ve forgotten a lot more important things that I didn’t even know that I knew.
They are totally gone, but there’s Edgar Peters like a Las Vegas neon sign someplace in my brain’.
This piece is a sculptural walk where ‘Edgar Peters’ appears many times on the sculpture trail and may even become stuck in the mind of the viewer long after the piece has been viewed/dismantled.
Further works exploring this theme can be seen at the artist’s space within Cannizaro Studios.
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My work is about perceptions of what is real, what is fictitious and how we comprehend reality. It is
shaped by interests that have lasted years and fragments of time that have lasted seconds. The
medium in which I work can change and is in no way fixed: painting, sculpture, printmaking and
writing are equally relevant and I am prepared to explore any of these to best express my ideas.
3. Mr and Mrs Wilson’s Cat
Jolanta Jagiello
Pet cemetery (through bushes)
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Mr and Mrs Wiilson's Cat is a welded metal sculpture of the face of a cat located in the Historic Pet Cemetery. between the gravestones of "Rufus" and "Redland".
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Jolanta Jagiello is a welded metal sculptor with an Acme Artist Studio at High House Production Park, and works by recycling scrap metal and found objects to create ‘new works’ by assemblage and welding. She has won the V&A Inspired by… in 2005, 2008, and 2010 with metal sculptures which have been inspired by the V&A Collections. Jolanta is a member of APA (Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain) and regularly particpates in their annual exhibitions at the POSK Gallery in Hammersmith.
Adaptation 2
Jo Shepherd
On large log, left of path in Tennis Court Garden
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Jo Gabriele Sheppard's 'Adaption' series considers how living organisms can adapt to their environment. The surplus steel and zinc takes on a new existence through construction and juxtaposition. Inspired by how vegetation grows around or through materials in unexpected ways and the miraculous regeneration or adaption in creatures such as crayfish and worms that can lose segments and regenerate new ones. (Price on application).
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Jo Gabriele Sheppard graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2021 with an MA Fine Art Sculpture (Distinction). She has had work selected for exhibitions across the UK, including Lido Stores, Margate, Fabrica, Brighton, and Canal Boat Contemporary, London in 2024. In 2021 Sheppard's sculpture was selected for the Hannah Peschar Sculpture Award Show and this is the third time showing work in the Cannizaro Park sculpture trail.
9. A Tribute to the Plant-hunters
Viking Community Sculpture
Tim Norris RSS
Location: In clearing past Workshop 305 stand
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Tim created ‘A tribute to the Plant Hunters’ as part of Art in the Park 2021. It was started during the festival and Tim worked on it with the help of volunteers until its installation in its current position in April 2022. It is made from a variety of locally sourced materials including oak from a fallen tree in the park and silver birch from Wimbledon Common, along with English hazel and willow.
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Tim specialises in large-scale outdoor Sculptural works, his work draws its inspiration from the surrounding landscape and where possible uses indigenous natural materials, in combination with recycled or engineered parts.
Tim has a range of experience in both exhibiting and constructing commissioned work in the landscape. A proven track record of Commissions and Residencies, Including, Artist in Residence at The Irwell Sculpture Trail, The Grizedale Forest, and The National Cycle Network.
Rather than produce solely Furniture or Sculpture he creates inspirational environments for the public to relax, chat and enjoy.
Tim has run a wide range of workshops in many different settings. Working on site with groups, constructing large sculptures to running one-day workshops in schools and Community centres.
10 Dancing Angels
Annabel Johnson
Creative Zone near clay making stand
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Annabel makes functional and decorative ceramics that allow the mind to wander to places long forgotten, harnessing the sensory perceptions of walking and being. She is fascinated by the power of objects to contain memories and stories which can be retrieved through sight and touch.
Her current vessels are thrown and joined in stacks and are playfully altered through slab additions, gestural carving and mark-making. Through applying handmade coloured slips, layers of wax resist, underglazes, oxides and stains she creates vibrant, textured and tactile
surfaces referencing her experiences in the natural world.
A dance-like movement and conversation between these 3 pieces speak of her journey through life as child, mother, educator and woman entering a transitional time of life.
Through movement of their position, forms huddle like crones, bow in reverence or dance like divas. They speak of freedom, honesty, wisdom and the friendship, conversation and support between women.
They exclaim from the heart and move to the dance of life.
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Annabel Johnson runs Hags Pottery a small ceramic studio in Wimbledon. Her dedication to fostering creativity and education have been the cornerstone of her career, alongside developing her own work.
Annabel has a Foundation Diploma in Ceramics from West Dean College, a degree in Art History, a PGCE, and an MA in Museum and Gallery Education. She has over a decade of experience working in Museums and Galleries alongside extensive teaching experience in schools including Head of Art at Donhead Preparatory School in Wimbledon. Passionate about making art accessible, she developed Children’s Art School, an organisation offering art courses and clubs in schools and community venues across southwest London.
Annabel currently works at The Courtauld Gallery, as a Gallery Educator where she leads workshops for a wide range of groups exploring The Courtauld collection.
https://www.hagspottery.org/about-hags-pottery
Instagram: @hagspottery
Mulitple Works: Workshop305
Amongst Trees in front of wall of leading to rose garden
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Collaborative sculpture made from mixed media
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Collaborative sculpture made from mixed media
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Bright coloured blocks sitting around the ancient oak
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Workshop 305 CIC is an arts and crafts hub and community workshop space on Weir Road in Wimbledon which provides teaching in woodwork, ceramics, printing, fine art, and textiles to adults with learning and physical difficulties while focusing on sustainable artistic practices. For more details about Workshop 305 and information on all evening and weekend pottery classes visit our website and follow our Instagram. Workshop 305 CIC runs a range of workshops for the whole community and is a registered social prescriber.
Albatross, Hare and Wolf
Kevin Herlihy
Location:
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Made from recycled materials.
NFS
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Kevin Herlihy is a sculptor with a passionate respect for the natural world.
Kevin fuses traditional craft techniques using wood, metal and textiles with fine art practices, constantly adapting and evolving methods for reusing waste products. Retrieving and transforming the sadly plentiful supply of discarded material left as litter, bound to become an endlessly drifting hazard from river to ocean or just another product of landfill.
Encouraged from an early age to reuse and recycle by a generation which lived through two world wars. Kevin is distinctly aware of the vast amount of energy used to manufacture disposable products, using raw materials extracted from deep within the Earth and forged there over many millions of years. Kevin injects this energy into his work, making a symbolic return to nature, coming full circle, life clawing its way back from the rubble of dereliction.
Instagram: @herlihy8810
13. Diana and Fawn
Sculptor unkown
Location: Diana path
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Diana, in the pre-Christian belief system of ancient Rome, is considered to be the goddess of both wild and domestic animals, and also the protector of women during childbirth. The sculpture shows her nursing a young doe.
The sculpture was made in 1841 and was originally in the garden of a Sicilian villa. The sculptor is unknown.
To find out more about the history of Cannizaro Park, look at the history page on the Friends of Cannizaro Park website.
Sculptural Sketch of a Young Woman
A Quiet Space
Karen Henry
Location: Maple Avenue
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Ceramic busts on plinths
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I am an artist based at Wimbledon Art Studios. I completed an HND in Furniture Design and Manufacture at London Metropolitan University, where I studied metalwork and woodwork. Since then I have done numerous sculpture courses in Florence, Italy.
My main focus is sculpture, although I do charcoal drawings and some painting. My sculptures are inspired by classical, figurative sculpture and sculptors such as Michelangelo. I like my sculpture to reflect something of the subject or model, their personality, energy, or what is important to them, and to place it in the modern rather than the classical era.
instagram : @karenhenryart
website : www.karenhenryart.com
Pure Soul, Worn Out Cushion
Ildiko Korsos
Location: Maple Avenue
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"Pure Soul" is a stoneware sculpture totem that symbolizes purity and innocence.
This work of mine has a finely textured surface and is built up of elements.
It has a light pink glaze, complemented by an off-white glaze.
The ceramic elements are attached to each other on a wooden stand.
£380
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"Worn-out Cushion"
Symbolizes fatigue or the passage of time, reflecting experiences and memories.
Textured stonewarwe sculpture/Pink&off-white glazes
£290
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Ildiko is a ceramicist who likes to experiment and discover the endless possibilities of clay.
Her hand-built ceramic vessels,sculptures and wall decorations are characterised by the delicate incorporation of natural textures and meticulous execution,
reflecting the techniques she learned in Hungary and honed here in London.In the new collection her sculptures and totems are inspired by pebbles and stones found on the shores of the sea, shaped into beauty by the work of water and wind.
14,15,16,17,28. Mulitple works
Friedel Buecking
Location: Maple Avenue in front of Copper Beech
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Dimensions: 60cm x 60 x 40 masonry paint finish
This sculpture improvisation is chainsaw cut from a single piece of cherry wood. Suitable for outdoor and indoor display.
£600
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198cm high x40x40cm. Holly wood on oak base. Masonry paint finish. Abstract chainsaw cut improvisation. For display indoors and outdoors.
£300
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Eucalyptus on oak base, masonry paint height: 125cm x 40 x 30
abstract improvisation, chainsaw cut for indoor and outdoor display.
£400
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IN SPRING: single piece of chainsaw sculpted oak with acrylic masonry paint. Free-standing for outdoors and indoors.
150cm tall x 45 x 30cm
£600
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18,19. Muliebrity, I Saw You Coming
Ros Kennedy
Location: Maple Avenue
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"Muliebrity" celebrates the timeless strength and beauty of womanhood, blending the curves of the female form with the earthy bark textures of the forest. Drawing on the 16th-century term which refers to the defining qualities of womankind, this artwork fuses femininity with nature, presenting a series of armour-like elements that symbolise the resilience and power inherent in both. The ceramic pieces are moulded on the artists own body and are wearable. Bark from local parks were used as tools to create the texture.
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"I Saw You Coming" is crafted entirely from reclaimed materials found in the artist’s late father’s garage. The piece transforms the cold, utilitarian nature of industrial tools into a representation of a delicate bouquet of roses. It's a beautiful tribute to both memory and transformation, where the past blooms anew in unexpected ways.
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Ros is a multidisciplinary artist, predominately working in 3D sculpture and installation. Her work experiments with concepts of feminism and connections with nature. She is currently studying for a BA in Fine Art at Art Academy London.
Instagram: @roskennedy_art
Website: https://roskennedy.cargo.site/
Threads, Arcadian Flock
Elspeth Penfold
Workshop area in Keir Garden
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Threads is an installation of wooden discs by Elspeth Penfold. Twelve discs will be attached to the oak trees in Cannizaro. The wooden discs will have words from Yardley Oak the poem by William Cowper ( written in the 17th Cy and is the longest poem written in England… unfinished). https://allpoetry.com/Yardley-Oak
Make a rope with Elspeth, or simply collect a rope, before you walk through the grounds at Cannizaro looking for words from the poem Yardley Oak by William Cowper. These will be attached with twine to the oak trees. Each time you find a disc read the words and enjoy the image. Then make a quipu (knot) in your rope to record your find. When you finish take your rope home, each time you run your hands over the knots it might remind you of the lines of poetry and the tree and a special walk.
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Arcadian Flock reflects on our ever changing landscape through threads and words.
Materials: metal shepherds crooks, washed unspun fleece, small watercolour paintings on gesso and cardboard with selected writing from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia
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Elspeth Penfold is a Bolivian/Argentinian artist who has lived and worked in the UK since1970. Elspeth’s multi-disciplinary practice incorporates weaving, painting, drawing, walking and writing. Her spinning and knotting work draws on the Incan history and technique of ‘Quipu’ (knot work) and the Quechua language of the native Andean people. Elspeth develops walks as a performative social art practice, alongside her broader multimedia practice. Elspeth has a degree in Government and Sociology Latin American studies from Essex University, a degree in fine Art painting from Wimbledon College of Art UAL, a postgraduate degree in Modern Languages from King’s College London, and recently completed an MA in Creative Event Management at Falmouth University.
Elspeth’s commissions in 2022 include Reclaiming the Narrative, with POW Thanet at Turner Contemporary, Margate; Intertidal Calligraphy with Walk Create, East Kent Mencap, and The Museum of London Archeology in Whitstable; Port at Art Walk Porty, Edinburgh; and Walking with Ghosts, a live art commission with The Imperial War Museum.
Untold Possibilities
Blandine Martin
Location: Maple Avenue
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“Untold Possibilities” is a flexible, web-like red structure with broken domestic fragments of ornaments, cups, and saucers. I explore the complexities of remembering, where the past is all too often glorified, but cracks reveal glimpses of hidden truths & social constraints.
‘Untold Possibilities’ was first exhibited at the sculpture trail Sky Moving Sideways, curated by Rebekah Dean at Stephen’s House and Garden. I’m delighted to now have the opportunity to show it with Commonworks Gallery’s sculpture trail in Cannizaro Park. I look forward to seeing how the sculpture transitions and adapts within its new surroundings.
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Blandine Martin is a French-born, London-based visual artist working with textiles, found materials, and soft sculpture. Her practice investigates memory, emotional inheritance, and transformation through tactile processes such as tearing, layering, and what she calls “furious stitching” a form of instinctive, fast stitching. Her work often navigates the boundaries between body and landscape, and between personal and collective history. It is responsive to site and context, adapting to different environments while remaining rooted in material memory.
Blandine has a background in architecture and alternative art education, including participation in The Other MA (TOMA) and the Mass Correspondence programme. Recent exhibitions include Sky Moving Sideways at Stephens House & Gardens, Between Here and Gone at the Asylum Chapel as part of OutLANDish, and group shows at Indra Gallery, the House of Smalls, and Safehouse 1. She is a member of ArtCan and the Unprimed Collective.
Bite
Elliot Bottle
Location: Maple Avenue
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Title: Bite
Made: 2025
Dimensions: 199cm x 109cm x 22cm
Material: Found Materials, ratchet straps, clamps.
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Traditionally, conservation refers to the preservation of natural, biological and material artefacts. Bottle’s practice, however, proposes an expanded conception of conservation, one that engages with the preservation and re-presentation of the metaphysical.
Domestic materials and household ephemera are understood not solely through their physical utility but as repositories of lived experience. They function as informal archives, carrying traces of emotional, psychological, and temporal significance. When their material function is exhausted, they are frequently discarded not through official waste systems but informally, in non-designated refuse areas, on street corners, or in other liminal urban spaces. This informal disposal suggests a complex negotiation between the object’s physical obsolescence and the persistence of its metaphysical charge.
The artist’s approach is archival, situated within practices of collection, documentation, and categorisation. Materials are gathered, organised and stored in the studio. As a result of the impending cohabitation, their associations, both formal and conceptual, begin to emerge through proximity. The resulting combinations are not fixed compositions, but contingent configurations that reflect the conditions of their storage and encounter.
The artist employs support structures such as clamps, pulleys, straps, crates, and other provisional display systems. These mechanisms function as both literal and conceptual frameworks, allowing the work to remain materially intact while foregrounding its ephemeral and contingent nature.
Instagram: @foundthislikethat
24,25. Multiple Works
Cathy Green
Location: Maple Avenue
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ZigZag tower - ceramic - 120cm h x 30cm w x 15cm d £895
Weathered bronze tower - ceramic 170cm h x 25cm w x 25cm d £1,200
Floral rhombus - porcelain 30cm x 30cm x 30cm £495
Hedera Helix - ceramic - probably 2 or 3 of these - various dimensions - all ~45cm x 45cm x 45cm £595 - £895
Angular flint - ceramic - 25cm h x 35cm w x 20cm d £595
Hedera bowl - porcelain - 25cm x 25cm x 25cm £395
Geo cube - ceramic ~ 35cm x 35cm x 35cm (not suitable for outside) £695
Black crackle tower - ceramic 105cm h x 25cm w x 25cm d £695
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Cathy creates unique stoneware and porcelain sculptures, specialising in pieces suitable for gardens, garden rooms and outdoor spaces.
Cathy’s ceramic sculptures blend organic elements to create striking pieces which embrace the juxtaposition between the precision of geometric forms with the organic nature of clay. She takes her inspiration from the mathematical and geometric patterns within nature, representing them in sculptural compositions.
Her sculptures bring colour, form and pattern to outdoor spaces. They are created specifically to be outdoors year-round whatever the weather. In summer time they blend with flowering plants whilst in winter they bring much needed colour to otherwise sparser beds. Equally they can be installed indoors.
Her totem style sculptures can be nestled within flower-beds, or sat atop plinths in ponds. They are high-fired to ensure durability and frost resistance. Cathy creates sculptures to commission, working closely with her customers throughout each project to ensure satisfaction. Customers choose the colour combinations, finishes and number of modules to create the look they are seeking.
The process of making pieces which sit upon land out of materials which are extracted from the same land is of utmost importance to Cathy.
Artists Website:
Nature’s Blueprint
Briony Marshall
Location: Maple Avenue
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Her current work, Nature’s Blueprint, shows the exact atomic structure of Winsor Blue pigment using human figures to represent individual atoms. This innovative piece helps us understand what makes something blue at the molecular level.
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London sculptor Briony Marshall transforms invisible molecular structures into sculptures that reveal the hidden beauty of science. Working from her home studio in Wandsworth, near King Georges Park, she makes complex ideas accessible through art.
Her current work, Nature’s Blueprint, shows the exact atomic structure of Winsor Blue pigment using human figures to represent individual atoms. This innovative piece helps us understand what makes something blue at the molecular level.
With a Biochemistry degree from Oxford University and 3-year Sculpture Diploma from the Art Academy London, Briony has been artist-in-residence at Vanderbilt University’s Vaccine Centre, Haileybury School STEM centre, culture venue Kingsplace and Marianis bronze foundry in Italy. Her public sculpture ‘Layers of Bournemouth’ was a finalist for the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture, and her work has been shown at leading galleries including Pangolin London and Messums West.
Her sculptures demonstrate that art and science aren’t separate worlds—they’re different ways of exploring and connecting with the beautiful reality that surrounds us.
26, 27. Multiple Works
Ben Nicolas
Location: Maple Avenue
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A ceramic stoneware large shell, glazed with crystalline glazes. The glazes are coloured by metal oxides including cobalt and copper.
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A ceramic stoneware large shell, glazed with crystalline glazes. The glazes are coloured by the metal oxide nickel which gives a honey brown colour to the glaze. Blue crystals form within the glaze on cooling
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Ben Nicolas has been practicing sculpture in South West London since 2005. He draws his ideas from looking at natural world as he explores wildernesses from local Wimbledon Common to the Australian Outback. He produces large ceramic Sculptures.