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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
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
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
🔥'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
🎈'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...
@marshawards.bsky.social
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
🏆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
October 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
🚦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

pssauk.org/event/medall...
October 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
⚠️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
October 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
⚠️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
October 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
⚠️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
October 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🚦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...
October 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
⚠️ 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...
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🎯 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...
October 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🚦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...
October 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM