The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
People will this week get a first chance to see the designs for a series of new sculptures for Spalding.
The £18,000 town trail will be artwork depicting local people who modelled for artist Joseph Hillier.
He was commissioned by arts programme Transported, in partnership with Spalding and District Civic Society, to create the small bronze sculptures inspired by the town’s market history.
Using 3D scanning technology, he took images of more than 20 local people last September.
Since then Joseph has been busy working on the designs, and the first pieces will be available to see at a special drop-in sharing event at Ayscoughfee Hall on Thursday (Jan 28, 1pm-6pm).
Visitors will also be able to contribute to the discussion about which designs are best for which locations. The final pieces will be unveiled in a special celebratory event before Easter.
Joseph said: “Working in Spalding has been an amazing journey for me.
“I am trying out a new and exciting way of making sculpture for a place, these new pieces are small and intimate.
“The pieces are portraits of people I have had the pleasure of meeting in and around Spalding.
“I hope together the works will form a portrait of this market town in an incredible area reclaimed from the sea and now full of agriculture and ingenious people.
“I look forward to seeing what people make of them.”
