Jennie Speirs Grant


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.
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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
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FMA Website Design Offices, Edinburgh Dark Cloud, Silver Lining. Beaten lead.
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βIan Hamilton Finlay. Works on Paper, June Haiku
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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.
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Armstrong Studio Trust / Northern Arts Commission Big Yellow Insect Disc. Site specific artwork. Coated aluminium panel.
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The Laing Art Gallery. Low and Bas Relief reinterpretation for visual impairment of Sir Stanley Spencer's painting "The Lovers" . Cast stucco
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The National Trust. Recreation of historic work in porcelain, Cragside, Northumberland
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Newcastle City Council, Public Sculpture Commission. Newburn Countryside Park
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Magga Bhavaka Trust and The English Sangha Trust. With Ken Grant. Works for Chithurst, Harnham and Amaravati Theravadin Buddhist monasteries
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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.
