RESIDENCY: Knepp Wildland
What if we went out at 5am in Spring to be met with silence? No glorious dawn chorus. A silent spring. A truly chilling thought. But there is a story of hope that I want…
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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…
Emmeline portrait supports Manchester charities
Two Manchester-based rights charities are sharing in the proceeds from this new life-size bronze portrait of Emmeline Pankhurst. As a token of my appreciation, ten percent of the sales price is split between Breakthrough UK…
Hazel featured in AS News
Earlier this year Sally Dickinson visited my studio to interview me about what it’s like to be a sculptor with Axial Spondyloarthritis (AS for short). She is from the National Society (NASS). Here’s her article…
Hazel’s statues on University Challenge
It was rather surreal. Jeremy Paxman talking about “Reeves’ statues”. You know you’ve made it when you have three questions about your statues on BBC2’s University Challenge. The questions were about Sadako Sasaki, Sir Nigel…
Mini ‘Our Emmeline’ supports Manchester charities
It’s one year since the Our Emmeline statue was unveiled and 101 years since the first women exercised their vote. To celebrate, I’ve two Manchester-based women’s rights charities to benefit from this new bronze miniature…