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Public Statues and Sculpture Association
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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
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🚦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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🎯 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
🚦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...
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!! CORRECTION - Closing date 11 Nov!!

📣 Job alert!
We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!

Closing date: 11 November 2025

Apply at: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Last week the MCT held the annual Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture in partnership with @pssatweets.bsky.social . We received so many wonderful nominations this year, it was fantastic to see all of the amazing pieces produced.
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Last week the MCT held the annual Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture in partnership with @pssatweets.bsky.social With so many wonderful nominations the few that were shortlisted were then also up for Public voting. The Winner of the Public Vote was Awarded to ‘Ribbons’ by Pippa Hale.
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Only four more days to catch Andy Goldsworthy 50 Years at Nat Gallery of Scotland and it's selling out fast. Go if you can; you won't forget it.
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I saw the statue of Ada Salter yesterday. ⏬️
A walk, organised by @lselibrary.bsky.social and led by historian Laura Schwarz, took us along the Thames riverside west from Rotherhithe. I didn't think to take a photo. I particularly like the one with Tower Bridge in the background. ⏬️
🔥WHAT was the FIRST statue of a female politician in London?

🌟Ada Salter (1866-1942) by Diane Gorvin, Bermondsey

EXPLORE our unique, ongoing resource:

Statues of Women DATABASE

Discover our database of non-royal named Women FIND out HERE pssauk.org/women/
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Wonderful that this drystone sculpture, na Dorsan (the doors) commemorating the legacy of the Clearances on the Isle of Lewis, won the public vote for excellence in public sculpture. @pssatweets.bsky.social
In the 1840s the Galson estate on Lewis was cleared for sheep. Most people were put onto emigration ships to Canada. Finally in 2007 - a community buyout. This commemorative sculpture by Will Maclean & Marian Leven is shortlisted for Marsh Award. If it moves you pls vote. pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...
🏆EXCITED to announce 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
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‘A sculptural Gesamtkunstwerk of unmatched variety, invention and bravura’ – Antonia Boström on the masterpieces of Artus Quellinus in Amsterdam’s massive town hall-turned-royal palace
The mighty sculptures of Artus Quellinus
The greatest Flemish sculptor of the baroque is finally receiving his dues, and in the perfect setting writes Antonia Boström
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🚦BOOK for our online TALK:

💥 Medals, Medallists and Sculpture:

William Wyon RA by Sir Mark Jones, FRSE

⚡️A royal favourite, Wyon was a prolific engraver renowned for his finely-wrought detail and neoclassical designs

👉 Tuesday 28th October 6.30pm

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⚠️WHO will WIN?

From our 2025 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST inc

🌟 Ryan Gander OBE RA
Know Not Your Place in the World
Elephant Park London

🌟 Jason deCaires Taylor FRSS
Alluvia
Canterbury

👉FIND out tomorrow! pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma... @marshawards.bsky.social
⚠️WHO will WIN?

From our 2025 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST inc

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

👉FIND out tomorrow!
pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma... @marshawards.bsky.social
⚠️WHO will WIN?

From our 2025 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST inc

🌟 Alex Chinneck MRSS
The Industry
Sheffield and Tinsley Canal

🌟 Pippa Hale MRSS
Ribbons
Playhouse Gardens, Leeds

👉FIND out tomorrow! pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma... @marshawards.bsky.social
🚦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...
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We're hiring: Development Manager

We’re looking for a Development Manager to help grow support for the Association for Art History and advance our mission.

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COMING TO SITE 3 OCT - 1 FEB 🪩

SLIME MOTHER by Abi Palmer is exploration of care and attention centring on a sticky, slimy and much maligned mollusc - the slug.

By monumentalising slug-life Abi creates a space of resistance and embraces alternative ways of moving through a world.
⚠️ Coming NEXT

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

⚡️'Capital Women: London’s statues of Women' by acclaimed author Juliet Rix

📅 Tuesday 21st October 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...
🎯 BOOK for our upcoming Webinar

UNFIRED, approaches to unfired clay with Phoebe Cummings, Cristiano Di Martino, Davinia-Ann Robinson and Clare Twomey

👉Friday 24th October 2-6pm pssauk.org/event/approa...
🚦BOOK for our online TALK

Giovanni Battista Maini (1690-1752) and Roman Sculpture of His Time by Dr Jennifer Montagu and Kira d’Albuquerque.

⚡️One of the most accomplished yet least known late Baroque sculptors

👉 Wens 12th November 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discus...
🚦BOOK for our Series of 'Discovering Women Sculptors' online TALKS inc:

Musings on preparing a catalogue raisonné of sculptural works by Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) by Dr Miranda Mason

👉Tuesday 25th November 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...
🚦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
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