public art
Pennywell Hedgehog
Pennywell Hedgehog

This was one of my earliest public art projects, working with quite young children at a local play school to devise a focal point for excursions and picnics in the freshly planted Childrens' Forest at Pennywell, on the edge of Sunderland. We made clay models to decide on the subject and then did some carving in soft material to establish the form of the hedgehog.

The stone was bought as a quarry block and carved on site. Bikers made one or two attempts at vandalising it, but this is one tough hedgehog and they soon gave up.

Pennywell Hedgehog

This was one of my earliest public art projects, working with quite young children at a local play school to devise a focal point for excursions and picnics in the freshly planted Childrens' Forest at Pennywell, on the edge of Sunderland. We made clay models to decide on the subject and then did some carving in soft material to establish the form of the hedgehog.

The stone was bought as a quarry block and carved on site. Bikers made one or two attempts at vandalising it, but this is one tough hedgehog and they soon gave up.