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Portable sculpture

"Carter Bar Object"

Carved and abraded stone

Public sculpture

The Newburn Non Monument .

An early (1986) site specific sculpture commissioned by Newcastle City Council, Department of Recreation and Leisure for the new Country park at Newburn, River Tyne.  Cast white Ballidon limestone. Verso - a White Horse.... 

Commissions, Collaborations, Collections, Clients and Conservation Projects  examples include

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  • Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation. University of Edinburgh. Permanent and temporary artworks.

  • School of Music, Newcastle University. Project proposal, short residency as part of the North East Year of Drawing 2015. Collaboration with Ken Grant and Dr Paul Attinello

  • FMA Website Design Offices, Edinburgh  Dark Cloud, Silver Lining. Beaten lead.

  • ​Ian Hamilton Finlay. Works on Paper, June Haiku

  • The Cass Sculpture Foundation. With Ken Grant. Commission for maquette, Concepts for New Sculpture, Chichester, Sussex. The Cup Is Full. Cast Bronze and enamel coating.

  • Armstrong Studio Trust  / Northern Arts Commission Big Yellow Insect Disc. Site specific artwork. Coated aluminium panel.

  • The Laing Art Gallery.  Low and Bas Relief reinterpretation for visual impairment of Sir Stanley Spencer's painting "The Lovers" . Cast stucco

  • The National Trust. Recreation of historic work in porcelain, Cragside, Northumberland

  • Newcastle City Council, Public Sculpture Commission. Newburn Countryside Park

  • Magga Bhavaka Trust and The English Sangha Trust. With Ken Grant. Works for Chithurst, Harnham and Amaravati Theravadin Buddhist monasteries

  • The Society of the Sacred Mission, Durham. With Ken Grant. Sculpture, furnishings and design. Architect Dr Sarah Menin.

Site Specific Commission

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Guildford Place Memorial

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A Memorial to the civilian air raid casualties of Guildford Place and Cheltenham Terrace Newcastle upon Tyne 25th April 1941.

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Made using fragments  of domestic collections of fine glass and ceramics recovered during the making of a garden as tools and impressions.

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Clay transferred to Crystacal Plaster.

Sited at  Armstrong Studio Trust. This work also references the lost classical sculpture collection belonging to the Banqueting Hall.

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All images ©  Jennie Speirs Grant

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