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Adam Reynold
"Pony & Tub"

A hill top memory to the pit ponies who worked below ground in the mines
Adam Reynold
Guiseppe Penone
" Contour Lines"
Our first art castings which negatively reflected the wear and tear of the steps within Dean Clough Mills at Halifax over the years since it was built.

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Peter Burke
"Janus Heads"
Two 3.5 metre heads showing the major and minor faces.
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Michael Dan Archer
" The Cambridge Sculpture"
Combination of Iron 'Giants' and flowing marble
Amanda Wray
"Insects and Bugs"
A small selection of aluminium tiles.
Jason Thomson
"Parkway Man"
Coralie Turpin
"Menagerie a trois"
A group of three animals for Swinton Rotherham
Brockholes Primary School
"The Four Seasons"
Wall plaques by the children
Jason Thomson
' Birchwood Bridge'
The dragon figure head cast in iron forming part of a bridge.
Jason Thomson
' St Botolph's Hare'
A wall decoration with and aluminum body and stainless steel wings.
Amanda Wray
"Cats at'om"
School and community project involving the childrens input into the sculptures.
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"Adam & Eve"
A plaster cast by an unknown artist was used to produce this iron sculpture. The plaster cast was found in the attic of a house and had suffered some damage.

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Derek Howarth
"Twirly Whirly Girls"
Castings moulded from polystyrene a set of relaxing sinuous dancers.

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John Hopkins
"Alert Deer"
Fine art castings in aluminium and cast iron of Roe Buck and Doe
commissioned by H. Downs

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Marcella Livingston
" Doughmen"
A selection of 10 statues to be placed in stategic places around a 3 mile walk over reclaimed land.

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Michael Dan Archer
"Gateway with crucibles"
Granite and cast iron sculptue at Woodmere Chesterfield

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Jason Thomson & Coralie Turpin
"Pig at Slumber"
Jason is a natural sculptor based in Sheffield, his selection of farm animals, pig, sheep, goat and hen can be seen at Thurnscoe between Barnsley and Doncaster.
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Victoria Brailsford
" Fox "
From a carved wooden statue to a more permanent iron casting, the fox lives on to grace a park in Oldham

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Charlie Holmes
"Richard Grainger Memorial"
A tribute to Richard Grainger of Newcastle-upon-Tyne who as an architect contributed much to the city.
The sculpture forms part of the walk way and will be polished by the feet of that city over time.

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Phillip King
"Peaks and Chimes"
Again a challenging casting owing to its size and the fact it was from a polystyrene pattern that fell apart.

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Judith Cowan
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Janis Kounellis
"HCWW"
We produced a series of discs fitted to the existing columns of the Dean Clough Gallery. This exhibit is repeated.

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Lawrence Weiner
"Steel pennies don't come or go to Heaven"
A good use of art to replace previous iron weigh scale. On permanent display at Dean Clough

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Edward Allington
"Column"
This piece now resides in Germany and taught us a lot about the optical illusions of a column's construction.

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John Newling
We cast items for the Inland Revenue in Nottingham, unfortunately we have no photographs.
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Anish Kapoor
"Mountain"
One of our favourite sculptors, which took a lot of time and effort to produce.
This piece now resides in Japan

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Antony Gormley
" Figures"
We have cast various figures in various shapes and sizes.

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