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Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
LAST minute Christmas shopping? 🎁

Buy our 'Discovering Women Sculptors' book featuring sixteen essays on often overlooked women sculptors from the 17thC to the early

From Anna Maria von Schurman to Eilis O'Connoll

BUY here pssauk.org/product/disc...
December 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🚦Did you hear about the WINNER of our 2025 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture

Will Maclean MBE RSA and Marian Leven RSA
na Dorsan
South Galson
Isle of Lewis

FIND out HERE pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma... @marshawards.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's TODAY🌋

In our Series of 'Discovering Women Sculptors' online TALKS:

💥Scandal in Hagen: Milly Steger’s theatre statues and their reception by Dr Nina Lübbren
📆 Tuesday 9th December 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Naum Gabo, Model for Hanging Construction, 1950
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124868
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Indie makers, artists, illustrators, give us a heads up about what you do. I don't have a great reach or anything, but would love to see your work - in the spirit of an antidote to the empty capitalist churn of black Friday if you will 👍
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It's TODAY 🎯

Mary Watts established the Compton Potters' Arts Guild in 1898 with a love for clay and a determination to encourage creativity within the local community.

💥LEARN about ceramic PIONEER Mary Watts in our online talk TODAY:

👉Tues 2nd Dec 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Coming SOON 🚦

In our Series of 'Discovering Women Sculptors' online TALKS:

💥Scandal in Hagen: Milly Steger’s theatre statues and their reception by Dr Nina Lübbren
📆 Tuesday 9th December 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It's TODAY 🚦

Mary Seton Watts as Designer, Ceramicist and Suffragist by Dr Lucy Ella Rose
👉Tuesday 2nd December 6.30pm

LEARN about her iconic Arts and Crafts masterpiece The Cemetery Chapel at Compton

🎯BOOK here pssauk.org/event/discov...
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🌟 Mary Watts established the Compton Potters' Arts Guild in 1898 with a love for clay and a determination to encourage creativity within the local community.

Mary Watts in our upcoming 'Discovering Women Sculptors' Series of online TALKS:

👉Tues 2nd December 6.30pm
pssauk.org/event/discov...
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Port Sunlight War Memorial. Commissioned from sculptor Goscombe John by Lord Lever while the Great War was in progress. It commemorates the employees of Lever Brothers killed in the war; its bronze statues are amongst the most dynamic and detailed to be seen anywhere. Its detail is breathtaking
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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With today’s third Rocky statue being installed in Philly, there are almost as many Rocky statues as there are monuments to actual historic women anywhere in Philadelphia.

www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/stor...
The (Few) Monuments to Women in Philadelphia - Association for Public Art
A look at some of the few existing monuments and memorials to women in Philadelphia and their backstories.
www.associationforpublicart.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It's TODAY 🎯

Our online TALK on renowned 19C actress Sarah Bernhardt known as 🌟'The Divine Sarah'🌟 was also an accomplished sculptor

💥 'Sculptural works by Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)' by Dr Miranda Mason

👉Tuesday 25th November 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
🎯 BOOK for our online TALK

Renowned 19C actress Sarah Bernhardt known as 🌟'The Divine Sarah'🌟 was also an accomplished sculptor

💥 'Sculptural works by Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)' by Dr Miranda Mason

👉Tuesday 25th November 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🚦LAST chance to BOOK for our online TALK:

Jonathan Marsden marks the publication this Autumn of:

🧨'European Sculpture in the Collection of his Majesty The King'

👉The first catalogue raisonné of this part of the Royal Collection

📅Tues 11th November 6.30pm

pssauk.org/event/autumn...
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Now available!

Bernini`s Architectural Drawings - An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931 (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Band 38)

#earlymodern #baroque #architecture #drawings

www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🔥'The Divine Sarah'🔥

💫Did you know that renowned actress Sarah Bernhardt was also an accomplished sculptor?

BOOK for our online TALK

💥 'Sculptural works by Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)' by Dr Miranda Mason

👉Tuesday 25th November 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Coming SOON ⚡️

In our our series of online TALKS:

Medals, Medallists and Sculpture:

'The sculptural output of medallist Frank Bowcher (1864-1938)' by Philip Attwood
👉 Tuesday 18th November 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/medall...
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Coming SOON 🚦

Our online TALK:

Jonathan Marsden marks the publication this Autumn of

🧨'European Sculpture in the Collection of his Majesty The King'

👉The first catalogue raisonné of this part of the Royal Collection

📅Tues 11th November 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/autumn...
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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'I can imagine Starling earnestly pedalling downstream encountering severe pollution, fluctuating water levels through cities and farmland and forced to disassemble and reassemble his boat, a darkly humorous protest at environmental damage.'

Caroline Bagenal reviews Simon Starling: Boat Works
Simon Starling: Boat Works — Corridor8
Simon Starling’s Boat Works is an ambitious exhibition across two venues in Cumbria: Abbot Hall in Kendal and Windermere Jetty Museum. The exhibition
corridor8.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🎈'The Head of Invention' by Eduardo Paolozzi was commissioned by the Design Museum’s founder, Sir Terence Conran, to commemorate the opening of the museum in 1989

👉 From our 'Public Sculpture of Kensington and Chelsea' Volume richly illustrated with detailed entries pssauk.org/product/publ...
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🎯 Luisa Roldán (1652-1706) was the FIRST woman sculptor recorded in Spain serving as Royal Sculptor under two Kings.

🚦Featured in our 'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK of sixteen essays on often overlooked women sculptors from 17thC to 20thC BUY here pssauk.org/product/disc...
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🎯 BOOK for our Series of 'Discovering Women Sculptors' online TALKS inc:

Sculpting a Professional Identity: Mary Seton Watts as Designer, Ceramicist and Suffragist by Dr Lucy Ella Rose

👉Tues 2nd December 6.30pm
pssauk.org/event/discov...
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚦Did you hear about our 2025 PSSA Marsh Public Vote Award WINNER Pippa Hale MRSS, Ribbons, Playhouse Gardens Leeds. Here ribbons also emerge from the ground representing the often hidden network of Women that underpin society READ here www.instagram.com/p/DP0twW8jK6...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🎯 GREAT visit to our PSSA Member Abdollah Nafisi’s work 'Neighbours' made from salvadged steel, which looks at the idea of encounters and opposing forces #FriezeSculpture @friezeofficial #abdollahnafisi
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚦LOTS of great press for our 2025 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture WINNER Na Dorsan by Will Maclean MBE RSA and Marian Leven RSA, Isle of Lewis READ here www.instagram.com/p/DQWSFYAjf7...
@marshawards.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM