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HOLT’s Director Dr Nicola Stacey has an opinion piece on Public Art in this week’s Big Issue.


"These public sculptures embed in people’s lives and experiences in the way that many art collections, wonderful as they are, cannot."


Nicola writes of the enormous social impact of public art for communities, particularly as part of local housing developments, and calls for more support for public art schemes to create “the heritage of generations in the future.”


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We are celebrating a win for the Byron Statue project today as the long campaign to raise funds for its relocation to Hyde Park has succeeded with £230k lottery funding. HOLT has supported the project with a grant and helped the Byron Society's fundraising efforts. Work should start later this year.

 

Proud Places has already involved nearly 450 young people in the project through assemblies, workshops and visits to the statue which will continue throughout the project. 

 

HOLT's 2024 Poet for Places, Kira Nelson, wrote a ballad Vyronas in honour of Byron’s bicentenary, visiting some of London's alternative provision schools to teach young people poetry. With Kira's support, students at Ormiston Latimer Academy overcame their poetry inhibitions and produced wonderful poems inspired by the project.

 

Read more in the article below published in today's Times newspaper.


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The latest edition of The Twentieth Century Society's C20 magazine has a double-page-spread profile on some recent HOLT projects.

 

 

The Twentieth Century Society campaigns to save outstanding 20th century buildings and design across Britain and as organisations we share many interests – we’ve been thrilled to restore these ones above and have many more coming up in 2025.

 

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