Hazel Reeves
Hazel Reeves MRSS SWA | |
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![]() Reeves in January 2019 | |
Born | Croydon,Surrey, UK |
Nationality | British |
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Known for | Sculpture |
Website | https://www.hazelreeves.com |
Hazel Reeves,MRSSSWAis a British sculptor based inSussex,England, who specialises in figure and portrait commissions in bronze. Her work has been shown widely across England andWales.[2]Public commissions can be found inCarlisle,[3]London,[4]Congleton[5]andManchester.[6]Since 2021, Reeves' work increasingly embraces soundscapes of nature and movement.[7]
Early life and education
[edit]Reeves was born inCroydon,Surrey and now lives inBrighton,East Sussex. She attendedImberhorne SchoolinEast Grinstead,West Sussex,Kingston Business School[8]and theLondon School of Economicsand Political Science (LSE) to study international development and gender equality MSc (Econ).[9]In 2003 she studied sculpture with Sylvia MacRae Brown at theUniversity of Sussex,atHeatherley School of Fine Art(London)[10]and in 2009 at theFlorence Academy of Art,Italy.[11]
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Career
[edit]Reeves' first quasi-public commission was ofSadako Sasakifor the Hedd Wen Peace Place, Llanfoist, Abergavenny, unveiled on theWorld Day of Peace,21 September 2012. It tells the story of Sadako and her 1000 paper cranes, used worldwide in peace education.[12]
The statue ofSir Nigel Gresley,designer of steam locomotivesFlying ScotsmanandMallard,was Reeves' first major public commission. Her original design had included a mallard duck but it was removed after objections from two relatives who thought it was demeaning. The statue was unveiled atLondon King's Cross railway stationon 6 April 2016, the 75th anniversary of his death.[4][13]
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OnInternational Women's Day,8 March 2018, Reeves'Cracker Packersstatue was unveiled in Caldewgate, Carlisle, close to thepladisfactory, whereCarr'sTable Water Biscuits are manufactured.[3]The statue celebrates the lives of women biscuit factory workers from the Carr's factory in Carlisle.[14]Based on former and current Cracker Packers the statue is of two women factory workers, one from the past and one from the present, standing atop a giant Carr's Table Water Biscuit. The statue was commissioned byCarlisle City Counciland was one of hundreds that were nominated forHistoric England's"Immortalised" season in 2018.[15]
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In 2017, Reeves' winning design –Rise up, Women– was selected from a shortlist of six designs for a bronze statue ofEmmeline Pankhurst,by winning the public vote and being the unanimous choice of the WoManchester Statue Project selection panel.[16]The statue ofEmmeline Pankhurstwas unveiled inSt Peter's Square, Manchester(her hometown) on 14 December 2018.[17]In 2021 it won thePublic Statues and Sculpture Association(PSSA) Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture.[18]
Reeves' statue ofElizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy(1833-1918), a pioneering activist who fought for equality throughout her life, was unveiled inCongletonbyBaroness Hale of Richmondon International Women's Day, 8 March 2022.[19][5][20]
Reeves seeks to redress the lack of representation of women in some of her public commissions as well as private commissions, such as portrait sculptures of disability rights activistsBaroness Jane CampbellandDiane Kingston.[21][22][23]Reeves has been appointed to sculptAda Nield Chew(1870-1945), the vocal factory worker who became a women's rights campaigner, for installation inCrewe.The 'Statue for Ada' campaign is coordinated by Cheshire Women's Collaboration.[24][25]
Sir John ManduellCBE, the Founding Principal who brought together two Manchester music schools to establish theRoyal Northern College of Music(RNCM), will be honoured June 2024 with a new bust created by Hazel Reeves.[26]
Reeves was artist-in-residence in 2021 atKnepp Estate,West Sussex, recording bird soundscapes to inspire movement.[27]Her resultant Sculptural Murmurings project at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, was funded by theNational LotterythroughArts Council England,[28]who arealsofunding Reeves' Soundscapes of Hope project in 2022/23, drawing on her field recordings at Knepp and the nature reserves of Svartådalan, Sweden.[29]Two sound events resulted in 2023: Layback with Nature (Phoenix Art Space, Brighton) and Sculptural Murmurings (II) (Fabrica Gallery).[30]
In 2024, Reeves' collaborated with pianist and composerDamian Montaguon the track Knepp Dawn, released on 5 May 2024 to markInternational Dawn Chorus Day.The track celebrates the dawn chorus in the Knepp scrubland that features bird species facing cataclysmic declines elsewhere, like thenightingale,turtle dove,cuckoo,white stork.[31]
Reeves was elected to theSociety of Women Artists(SWA) in 2009 and elected a member of theRoyal Society of Sculptors(MRSS) in 2017. She teaches portrait sculpture workshops at Art Junction inBillingshurst,Phoenix Brighton,Morley College(London) and Masterclasses at the Art Academy (London).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Artist Hazel Reeves talks to The Art Academy ahead of her Portrait Sculpture Masterclass that starts in less than one month's time".Art Academy London.11 March 2013.Retrieved31 January2019.
- ^"Hazel Reeves, SWA".Society of Women Artists.Retrieved5 February2019.
- ^ab"Cracker Packers statue".Carlisle City Council.5 March 2018.Retrieved24 January2019.
- ^ab"'Demeaning' duck absent from Sir Nigel Gresley statue ".BBC News.5 April 2016.Retrieved24 January2019.
- ^ab"Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy: Suffrage campaigner statue unveiled".bbc.co.uk.8 March 2022.Retrieved18 March2022.
- ^"Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst unveiled in Manchester today".Government of the United Kingdom. 14 December 2018.Retrieved24 January2019.
- ^"Telling Stories in Sound".Hazel Reeves.29 February 2024.Retrieved29 February2024.
- ^"Graduate Blogs".Kingston University London.Retrieved5 February2019.
- ^"Putting Gender on the Map"(PDF).London School of Economics. 29 July 2005.Retrieved5 January2019.
- ^"Hazel Reeves and Hilary Daltry visit Emmeline Pankhurst's Grave".Heatherleys.2 November 2018.Retrieved5 February2019.
- ^"Biography".hazelreeves.com.24 January 2016.
- ^Magee, Tamlin (31 December 2021)."Spaces for pondering, meditating, praying and 'being': 10 of Britain's best small pilgrimage sites".The Guardian.Retrieved8 January2022.
- ^"Sir Nigel Gresley at King's Cross".3rd Dimension (PMSA).20 March 2017.Retrieved5 February2019.
- ^"Cracker Packer statue unveiled in Carlisle".ITV News.8 March 2019.Retrieved31 January2019.
- ^"Carlisle's Cracker Packers statue to be celebrated in special London exhibition".News & Star with The Cumberland News.2 August 2018.Retrieved24 January2019.
- ^"Hazel Reeves wins Emmeline Pankhurst Statue Commission".The Womanchester Statue Project.26 April 2017.Retrieved24 January2019.
- ^"Thousands welcome Emmeline Pankhurst statue in Manchester".The Guardian.14 December 2018.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"The 2021 PSSA Marsh Awards Winners".Public Statues and Sculpture Association.Retrieved12 December2021.
- ^"'Our Elizabeth' comes home at last! ".Elizabeth's Group.Retrieved18 March2022.
- ^"'Our Elizabeth' cemented in town's history ".The Chronicle Series.16 March 2022.Archivedfrom the original on 17 March 2022.Retrieved17 March2022.
- ^Hurst, Carmen (October 2018)."Hazel Reeves and the Representation of Women in Public Art".ARTICULATE.Retrieved5 February2019.
- ^McIntosh, Anthony (11 December 2018)."Deeds Not Words: commemorating the women's suffrage movement through statues".Art UK.Retrieved5 February2019.
- ^Grace, Deborah (January 2019)."Making a Stand".Open Up South Manchester.Retrieved5 February2019.
- ^Watterson, Kaleigh (30 July 2023)."Ada Nield Chew: The factory girl who fought for women's rights".BBC News.Retrieved30 July2023.
- ^"A statue for Ada".A statue for Ada.30 July 2023.Retrieved30 July2023.
- ^"RNCM Founding Principal to be honoured with sculpture".4barsrest.20 February 2024.Retrieved29 February2024.
- ^"Reveil 2021 Streams: Hazel Reeves".Reveil 2021 Streams.1 May 2021.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"Making Space - Sculptural Murmurings - Hazel Reeves".Fabrica.1 August 2021.Retrieved4 November2021.
- ^"Knepp Wildland Podcast - The Soundscape (episode 24)".Apple Podcast.13 June 2023.Retrieved13 June2023.
- ^"Soundscapes of Hope".Hazel Reeves.13 June 2023.Retrieved29 February2024.
- ^Gupta, Tanya (5 May 2024)."Rewilded park's birdsong inspires artists".BBC News.Retrieved5 May2024.
External links
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- Official website
- Knepp Wildland Podcast - The Soundscape, with Hazel Reeves, Episode 24
- "Our Emmeline: The Emmeline Pankhurst Statue Project by Hazel Reeves".Bronze Age.Retrieved31 January2019.
- "Hazel Reeves".Gallery Different.Retrieved23 January2019.
- "Keeping an eye on the bigger Picture".CBM.Retrieved22 January2019.
- "Hazel Reeves MRSS".Royal Society of Sculptors.Retrieved24 January2019.
- "Hazel Reeves wins Pankhurst commission".Society News, SWA.Retrieved22 January2019.
- "Our Emmeline – my statue by Hazel Reeves".Peoples History Museum.Retrieved31 January2019.
- McIntosh, Anthony."Deeds Not Words: commemorating the women's suffrage movement through statues".Art UK.Retrieved31 January2019.
- "Making a Stand".publitas.com.Retrieved31 January2019.
- "Hazel Reeves and the Representation of Women in Public Art".Articulate.Retrieved31 January2019.
- Living people
- 21st-century English sculptors
- 21st-century English women artists
- Alumni of Kingston University
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Alumni of the University of Sussex
- Artists from Brighton
- English women sculptors
- Artists from London
- People from Croydon
- 21st-century women sculptors
- Sound artists
- Field recording