Public Statues and Sculpture Association

It's TOMORROW ⚡️

'Public Sculpture in Focus' online TALK:

William Birnie Rhind’s Promenade Lifeboat Memorial, St Anne’s on the Sea: Public Sculpture, Identity and Memory by Andrew Walmsley

Tuesday 3rd March 6.30pm

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FIND out about our acclaimed Series of Volumes 🎯

Public Sculpture of Britain

Here we highlight the Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster Vol 1

⛲️ In the late 1930s Sir Edwin Lutyens redesigned the square’s fountains, originally created in 1845 by Sir Charles Barry

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Have YOU seen our book? 🔥

'Discovering Women Sculptors' an anthology of sixteen essays on often overlooked women sculptors from 17thC to early 20thC including Mitzi Cunliffe and Marcello

FIND out HERE

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Coming NEXT!💥

'Public Sculpture in Focus' online TALK:

William Birnie Rhind’s Promenade Lifeboat Memorial, St Anne’s on the Sea: Public Sculpture, Identity and Memory by Andrew Walmsley

Tuesday 3rd March 6.30pm

pssauk.org/event/public...

Tsk-tusk: a tale of two elephants Bernini’s Roman elephant has lost a delicate part of its anatomy, while an implacable enemy of ancient Rome may have been found by Spanish researchers

In a big week for elephants in art and archaeology, Bernini’s Roman elephant has lost a delicate part of its anatomy, while an implacable enemy of ancient Rome may have been found by Spanish researchers

For LGBTQ+ History Month, via the @oxfordclarion.bsky.social weekend email.
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Slade Lectures 2026
‘Permanently Temporary Cities: Refugee Camps'
Esther da Costa Meyer

5pm Wed 25 Feb
Auditorium, St John's College
@stjohnsox.bsky.social

(Free Admission)

Abstract: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/slade-...

Slade Lectures 2026: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/slade-lectures

Lecture: Among the First: Italian Women Artists as Originators with Eve Straussman-Pflanzer - www.hydecollection.org Lecture: Among the First: Italian Women Artists as Originators with Eve Straussman-Pflanzer Talks The Hyde Collection, 161 Warren Street, Glens F...

Coming up Feb 28 -

Among the First: Italian Women Artists as Originators
with Eve Straussman-Pflanzer
A lecture at The Hyde Collection
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Suffragettes: The Hard-Won Fight for Votes for Women | Glasgow Women’s Library This Spring, as Scotland goes to the polls, we look back to a time when women were excluded from such a basic democratic right.

In Spring, as Scotland goes to the polls to elect a new Scottish Parliament, @womenslibrary.bsky.social looks back to a time when women were fighting for such a basic democratic right. Book now for this event exploring fascinating aspects of suffrage history
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WOW!🚦

Our PSSA Member Tessa Campell Fraser

Whales - A Deeper Dialogue

Rochester Cathedral

Featured on BBC

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NOMINATIONS are OPEN! 💥

For our 2026 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture, Fountains and Conservation

Nominate your favourite recent permanent public sculpture! 👀

📷 Alex Chinneck The Looping Boat SHORTLIST 2025
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@marshawards.bsky.social

11 Feb: feast #otd of St Gobnait of Baile Bhuirne #Cork #abbess from the 6th century who is associated with bees. In 1601 Clement VIII gave a plenary indulgence to those visiting her site (John Saaats)

EXCITING new PSSA Member Profile🚦

Divyam Raghunath 🌟

His practice explores shifting notions of identity, perception, and spatial transformation, shaped by experiences of living across Patna, Sydney, Singapore, and London

@pssa_sculpture Instagram

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EXCITING new PSSA Member Profile ☄️

Lisa Snook MRSS

Using clay as her starting point, the work is both abstract and figurative. Bodily folds form, envelop and dissolve, whilst textures of skin and fingertips remain as residual reminders

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🎯 NEXT In our Series of online TALKS

'Discovering Women Sculptors':

💥'To Have and to Hold' the Medals of Danuta Solowiej
📅 Tuesday 10th February 6.30pm

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Welder by Andy Scott on St Ninian Terrace in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Created in 1996, this was one of the first public artworks commissioned as part of the Crown Street Regeneration Project.

#glasgow #sculpture #publicart #gorbals #architecture

🚦TOMORROW🚦

In our online Series of TALKS
'Discovering Women Sculptors'

🌟 Anna Mahler 1904-1988

Daughter of composer
Gustav Mahler and Alma Schindler

📆Tues 3rd February 6.30pm
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NEXT week ☄️

In our online Series of TALKS 'Discovering Women Sculptors'

🌟 Anna Mahler (1904-1988)
By Marina Mahler and Michele Drascek
📆Tuesday 3rd February 6.30pm

⚡️Anna was the second child of composer Gustav Mahler and his wife, Alma Schindler

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Bronze statuette of a monster, attributed to Arent van Bolten, c. 1610-1630

(V&A Museum)

It's real! 🥲😱🥰

A Companion to Rome c. 400-c. 1050 is a major new volume edited by Professor of Early Medieval History Caroline Goodson (University of Cambridge) and Professor Julia Hillner (Universität Bonn). Part of Brill’s series Companion to European History, it is the result of over seven years' scholarship by 32 contributors from across Europe and America.

NEW 🙌 'A Companion to Rome c. 400-c. 1050' edited by
Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner.

A new urban history of late antique and early medieval Rome - the result of over seven years' scholarship by 32 contributors from across Europe and America.

🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

This role is ideal for a researcher with a strong publication record, substantial editorial experience, and a commitment to the evolving field of art history and academic publishing.

Applications due on Friday 27 February
🔗 Find full details and how to apply: loom.ly/SLM3VJs

🚦NEXT In our Series of online TALKS 'Discovering Women Sculptors'

🌟 Anna Mahler (1904-1988)
By Marina Mahler and Michele Drascek
📆Tuesday 3rd February 6.30pm

⚡️Anna was the second child of composer Gustav Mahler and his wife, Alma Schindler

pssauk.org/event/discov...

It's TODAY 👀

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

From ceramics to monuments-

Claudia Formica' (1903-1987) by Chiara Lanzi

📆 Tues 27th January 6.30pm pssauk.org/event/discov...

🎯 THIS week!

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

From ceramics to monuments -

Claudia Formica (1903-1987) by Chiara Lanzi

📆 Tues 27th January 6.30pm

pssauk.org/event/discov...

In celebration of the 125th anniversary of UTP, get your copy of Gender Battles at 40% OFF!! Offer expires on February 15th so hurry up!

Discount code: UTP125

Link: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Book cover with sculpture made out of yellow lego

She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

I’ve written something to accompany this #ceramics exhibition…it includes mention of lichen and a potters wasp in relation to ceramic practice

Undergrowth is on view at County Hall Pottery, London

📍 View the photo gallery & read more: cnow.site/undergrowth

Exhibited artists: Elizabeth Jackson, Emily Stapleton Jefferis, Jo Pearl, Lisa Hellrup, Meichen Chen, Mingshu Li, Raphael Emine, Safia Hijos, Sisse Holst Pedersen
Curated by Elizabeth

A large cylinder wrapped in plastic on the back of truck. Eyes are visible through the wrapping. What is it!

It’s been a slow one, but the day has arrived!