Hazel Reeves

Hazel Reeves MRSS SWA
Reeves in January 2019
Born	Croydon,Surrey, UK
Nationality	British
Education	Imberhorne School,Sussex, UK Kingston Business School,Surrey, UK London School of Economics and Political Science,London, UK University of Sussex,Sussex, UK Heatherley School of Fine Art,London, UK Art Academy, London, UK Kingston University,Surrey, UK Florence Academy of Art,Italy
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.Public commissions can be found inCarlisle,London,CongletonandManchester.Since 2021, Reeves' work increasingly embraces soundscapes of nature and movement.

Early life and education

Reeves was born inCroydon,Surrey and now lives inBrighton,East Sussex. She attendedImberhorne SchoolinEast Grinstead,West Sussex,Kingston Business Schooland theLondon School of Economicsand Political Science (LSE) to study international development and gender equality MSc (Econ).In 2003 she studied sculpture with Sylvia MacRae Brown at theUniversity of Sussex,atHeatherley School of Fine Art(London)and in 2009 at theFlorence Academy of Art,Italy.

Statue of Sir Nigel Gresley by Hazel Reeves, King's Cross Station, London

Career

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.

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.

TheCracker Packersbronze statue by Hazel Reeves, Carlisle, 2018

OnInternational Women's Day,8 March 2018, Reeves'Cracker Packersstatue was unveiled in Caldewgate, Carlisle, close to thepladisfactory, whereCarr'sTable Water Biscuits are manufactured.The statue celebrates the lives of women biscuit factory workers from the Carr's factory in Carlisle.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.

Rise Up, Womenbronze statue ofEmmeline Pankhurstby Reeves, Manchester, 2018

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.The statue ofEmmeline Pankhurstwas unveiled inSt Peter's Square, Manchester(her hometown) on 14 December 2018.In 2021 it won thePublic Statues and Sculpture Association(PSSA) Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture.

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.

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.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.

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.

Reeves was artist-in-residence in 2021 atKnepp Estate,West Sussex, recording bird soundscapes to inspire movement.Her resultant Sculptural Murmurings project at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, was funded by theNational LotterythroughArts Council England,who arealsofunding Reeves' Soundscapes of Hope project in 2022/23, drawing on her field recordings at Knepp and the nature reserves of Svartådalan, Sweden.Two sound events resulted in 2023: Layback with Nature (Phoenix Art Space, Brighton) and Sculptural Murmurings (II) (Fabrica Gallery).

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.

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).

External links

• 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.