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 differently. Steel...

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 member of a new...

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