Souls - Leicester University, UK
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N 52° 37.258 W 001° 07.584
30U E 626830 N 5831755
An abstract bronze sculpture comprising of two pieces arranged to create a complementary spiralling movement.
Waymark Code: WM8A8B
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/27/2010
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The sculpture was donated by the artist herself who has close ties wuth Leicester University. It is on the University of Leicester campus in the centre of lawn in front of Fielding Johnson building.
The figures stand 2.5 meters high on a stone plinth. It was cast by A & A Sculpture Casting Ltd.
Address:
Leicerster University,
University Road,
Leicester
LE1 7RH
About the artist:
Helaine Blumenfeld studied sculpture in Paris following a doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University. She came to England in 1969 and now divides her time between studios in Cambridge and Pietrasanta, Italy. She has lectured to the Cambridge Visual Arts Society, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Pietrasana Symposium and the British Psychoanalytic Society. She is also actively involved in organising and promoting exhibitions of sculpture in the environment and introduced the successful Sculpture in the Garden Show at Leicester University in 2003. In 2003, Blumenfeld received and honorary Doctor of Letters from Leicester University. In 2004, Blumenfeld was elected Vice President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
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