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The Suddick Flypast Installed - Commissioned by Sunderland City Council In my recent press release about The Suddick Flypast, I mentioned that I travelled to South Wales to cast the bronze ducks by hand, using the lost-wax approach. This post is the “under the bonnet” version — the practical reality of turning a clay model into bronze, and why that experience matters to the next stage of my practice.   Before the journey even begins, bronze casting asks you to think different

The Launch of Twenty Four North East 24NE - Artists Collective and Gallery - Sunderland If you spend any time around artists in the Northeast, you’ll eventually get onto the subject of selling art to make a living and you’ll hear the same mixture of grit and resignation: “It’s tough… but we keep going.” A new national report, Who Gets to Be an Artist?  (Social Purpose Lab x Artquest, 2025) , lays bare just how tough it really is. And yet, in the challenges it presents, as a m

Why public memorials reveal as much about the present as they do the past. 'Molly' by Dr Ron Lawson (Stanson Art) commissioned by...

Bringing bronze and steel together for a community public art commission PRESS RELEASE New artwork celebrates Southwick’s transformation...

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...

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...

Taking inspiration from on of lead mining tubs, artist and sculptor Dr Ron Lawson created the metal frame of the tub. From there, 500...

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

‘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...

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...