A good night was had by all at the recent Kensington Regeneration Community Awards.
Broadbent were approached to design these significant bronze awards. The award depicts a low relief map of the Kensington area and encompasses Kensington Regenerations logo.
The awards are given, after a nomination and voting process, to local community champions.
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The Sheppard Worlock Memorial Sculpture was successfully unveiled on Sunday May 11th.
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Cllr Paul Clark officially unveiled the sculpture and a specially-written liturgy was read by the Bishop of Liverpool The Right Reverend James Jones, the Archbishop of Liverpool The Most Reverend Patrick Kelly and Moderator of the Free Churches, which signified the co-operation between the city’s churches exemplified by Bishop Sheppard and Archbishop Worlock.
Many family and friends of the two great men attended the ceremony, along with a 3,000 strong congregation.
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The Sheppard Worlock memorial sculpture on Hope Street, Liverpool will be unveiled on Sunday. The walk of witness will start with a service at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral at 3pm with the walk due to start at 3:30pm and the dedication of the sculpture around 3:45pm.
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Broadbent have recently installed a 4m, laser cut and rolled weathering steel, sculptural mobile into the atrium of Liverpool Hope Universities newest building.
The design is simple in it’s concept, it takes it’s idea from the movement of seeds, reflecting the movement of people in the building. It is also representative of the students arriving and leaving Hope University; the university being good ground for growth, or a place that sends out to the wider world good seed.
The new Main Entrance building, designed by Brock Carmichael Architects, is a contemporary building, which utilises the traditional materials of other buildings on the campus. The materials selected for the sculpture aim to reinforce the material pallette.
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Broadbent have recently installed cast aluminium reception & concierge desks into Beetham Organizations new West Tower Offices in Liverpool.
The organic forms depict low relief imagery of Liverpool Docks throughout the centuries.
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You have an opportunity of viewing Stephen’s Roscoe lecture online following his presentation to an audience of over 700 people in St George’s Hall Liverpool, on Monday 19th February 2008. A slideshow of photographs by Guy Woodland accompanies the lecture.
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has been running these series of lectures for over a decade and Stephen joins His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mary McAleese, the President of Ireland, and Ken Dodd to name but a few.
Stephen will deliver a Roscoe Lecture entitled ‘Liverpool - City of Sculpture’ in St George’s Hall on Monday February 18th at 12:30pm
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Happy Christmas from everyone at Broadbent.
]]>Working with a local youth group. Broadbent have been employed by Preston City Council to produce an artwork for a local community garden.
Taking the form of timber totems, the artwork will depict images and symbols of local residents printed onto ceramic tiles, whose local stories are being collected by the youth group.
Stephen Broadbent has been commissioned to produce two sculptural desks for Beetham Organization’s offices in the newly built, 40 storey high, West Tower, on Brook St, Liverpool.
Working closely with the client, Stephen has produced organic shapes, which will be cast in aluminium. The work has been inspired by the buildings location, overlooking the River Mersey. The imagery will depict the transformation of Liverpool’s dockland over the centuries.
Bellway Homes have commissioned Broadbent to produce a public sculpture for one of their latest housing developments.
Situated at the beginning of the Shropshire Union Canal these canal side apartments have views over the River Mersey.
The sculpture will depict the location of the development and it’s proximity to the canal.
Due for installation early 2008
The Park is now fully open and is being utilised by both the local community and visitors alike. BCA Landscape’s brilliant design for the park has ensured that the whole community can enjoy this great place.
All areas are to be proving popular, particularly the water play park, which has been inundated !! The ‘fish faces’ water jets have worked really well and the Council have produced a leaflet, which encourages the visitors to the Park to discover the ‘Moments in Time’ and ‘Finding Time’ objects and images.
Our purposely-robust designs are standing up to the test of such heavy use and extremes in Bristish weather.
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A stunning collection of Grade II listed Victorian school buildings, have been sensitively redeveloped with contemporary new-builds in this mixed use development, with a new public square at its heart.
Through landscape architects Planit EDC, Broadbent were commissioned to produce sculptural seating units for the public square, which would celebrate something of the life and history of the old Sheffield Central School.
Broadbent engaged with former pupils and asked them to provide personal memories, either as written statements or drawings. These were then modelled and cast into the bronze seating units.
The seats were installed in June 2007
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by Gerald Henderson
Five thousand people gathered in the heart of the city of Richmond VA for the unveiling of a Reconciliation statue on March 30 at the site of Richmond’s former slave market.
In this place of horror where 300,000 kidnapped Africans and their descendants were torn from their families and “sold down the river” to Southern plantations, a symbol of healing gives hope for a new future. The delegation of 15 from Liverpool was led by Kim Johnson, Cultural Diversity Manager, on behalf of Liverpool City Council. It included the Liverpool sculptor of the statue, Stephen Broadbent. Those from Richmond taking part in the events included the Governor of Virginia, the Mayor, city councillors and legislators’ along with four African Ambassadors.
The Ambassador of Benin called it “a blessed completion” of a triangle of new relationships between Benin, Richmond, and Liverpool, UK – which had profited hugely from the traffic in human flesh.
The statue of two figures in a close embrace is one of three identical monuments by Stephen Broadbent, as part of the ‘Reconciliation Triangle’ initiative, now in place at each point of the triangle. It stands at the heart of the Richmond business district in a specially designed plaza. Water from a cascading fountain flows over a map of the slave triangle. An inscription describes the suffering of the millions of Africans who were transported from their homeland. It concludes, “Their forced labour laid the economic foundations of this nation.”
Kim Johnson presented a framed copy of the Liverpool City Council’s 1999 apology for the city’s leading role in the slave trade. She called for an open and honest dialogue, “Only by taking personal responsibility will we bring about lasting change.”
Governor Timothy Kaine told the crowd that the resolution of “profound regret” by the State’s General Assembly in February was appropriate since Virginia had “promoted… defended… and fought to preserve” slavery. In his keynote address, Dr. John Kinney, Dean of the School of Theology at Virginia Union University, said, racial reconciliation, like surgery, carries a degree of risk. But it also offers the prospect of eliminating the pain of past and present generations and opening the way to a new future. He challenged the crowd, “Today is not a conclusion. Today is a day of commitment.”
Delores McQuinn, Vice President of Richmond City Council, and Chair of the Slave Trail Commission, recalled her enslaved great-grandfather. When his son asked to see the records of his family, the plantation owner burned them before his eyes. “If I stand here today, I cannot be a hypocrite, “said McQuinn. “ I too must extend forgiveness from the depth of my heart and soul.” Audrey Brown Burton, one of Richmond’s pioneers for racial healing said afterwards, “I saw something I thought would never happen in this city.” An inscription on the base of the sculpture, composed by Richmond school students, reads, “Acknowledge the past, embrace the present, shape a future of reconciliation and justice.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch headlined its front page story, “A monument to reconciliation.”
Ten years of coordinated teams in Richmond and Liverpool, including Hope in the Cities, working with both city governments, as well as visits to Benin, have played an essential role in facilitating the Reconciliation Triangle project. The Liverpool delegation, which included representatives from secondary schools, Liverpool Hope University, community and voluntary organisations spent several days in Richmond following the unveiling ceremony to exchange experiences of ‘honest conversation’ as a tool for trust building in communities. They met with educators in public and private schools in Richmond and hope that by linking students with their peers in Benin and Liverpool, the Triangle can help to overcome one of slavery’s legacies – the racial disadvantage and economic separation in some schools and communities. They explored the possibility of linking schools in Liverpool, Richmond and Benin to work together to make a film on the life of Olaudah Equiano, the freed slave, who was active in the Abolitionist movement and wrote a book about his experience.
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The planters have been positioned equally along the length of the newly landscaped street, which holds the local market.
The planter tops depict low relief imagery and text relating to Ormskirk’s ancient market history, one of the oldest in the Country.
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