TV NEWS: Wolstenholme Elmy Way
The telling of the Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy story started on Monday (19 April) with the naming of the new Congleton bypass after her – Wolstenholme Elmy Way. BBC North West were there to witness the…
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PENNY LECTURE: Statues of Women – the politics and the practice
On 25 March, 6-6.30pm, I will be giving Morley’s ‘Penny Lecture’, exploring why we need to redress the lack of women represented in bronze on our streets, and how I go about it, one statue…
THE GUARDIAN: Our Emmeline – ‘powerful and evocative statue’
Delighted that on International Women’s Day, The Guardian is featuring my statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, ‘Rise up, women’, as part of the Great British Art Tour, in partnership with Art UK. The author of ‘The…
RESIDENCY: Knepp Wildland
Keep an eye out for me livestreaming Knepp soundscapes on MixLr – you’ll know it if it says ‘On air’. Hazel Reeves is on Mixlr What if we went out at 5am in Spring to…
COMMISSION: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
I am absolutely delighted to be chosen to sculpt “the brains behind the suffragist movement”, an extraordinary feminist, Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, for Congleton. The Elizabeth’s Group is writing her name back into history. We need…
#SpringBack Soundscapes
#SpringBack is a new series of birdscapes, bringing back to you the sounds of Spring 2020, shared each and every day of the UK’s second lockdown. There’s nothing like birdsong to soothe the soul, so…
Launched: Art Junction
We’re very excited to announce that our Art Junction online art school, developed specially for you, is now officially open, on the Patreon creative platform. Join our creative community and reinvigorate your creative practice. So…
Hazel’s Autumn Lecture on video now
I am delighted to be giving the online Autumn Lecture for the Surrey Sculpture Society (open to all), at 7pm on Tuesday 6 October 2020. A significant part of my artistic life is about telling…
BBC Radio 3: Sounds of the Earth
‘Sounds of the Earth’ featured my dawn chorus soundscape this week. If you’re a classical music lover like me, you’ll know Martin Handley’s BBC Radio 3 breakfast show, and its Sunday morning Sounds of the…
Sculpture Vulture Podcast interview
If you love sculpture, then this is for you. What Lucy Branch doesn’t know about bronze, is not worth knowing. It was a real privilege and pleasure to be interviewed by Lucy, for her new…
METRO: What do sculptors think?
Interviewing me for a METRO article, Renaka Odendra posed some challenging questions. ‘What do the sculptors of today think about sculpting real figures and the responsibility they hold as artists?’ was her overarching question. Below…
Sir Nigel Gresley Sir Nigel Gresley
King’s Cross Station, London The commission Sir Nigel Gresley, is the eminent railway engineer (1876-1941), designer of the record-breaking steam locomotives, Flying Scotsman and Mallard. The 7ft 4in bronze was unveiled to an enthusiastic crowd…