Thomas J. Price

Thomas J. Price (born c.1981) is a British sculptor of the YBA school. He was commissioned to produce a work in Stratford, London called Reaching out, and a statue to commemorate the Windrush generation for Hackney Town Hall.[1] Reaching out was unveiled on 5 August 2020.[2]

Price who is 39, studied at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art. There have been major exhibitions of his work at the National Portrait Gallery and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, [1]

Reaching Out

The statue is 9 feet (2.7 m) tall and weighing 420 kilograms, she is also strikingly ordinary. The work is deliberately not based on any particular woman – an antidote to hero worshipping. She is depicted on her mobile phone. Thomas Price says “I want this sculpture to be an opportunity for people to connect emotionally with an image of someone they might not have noticed before,” Price said.[2]

It has been installed on Three Mills Green near Stratford, east London, and is part of The Line, the city’s only dedicated public art walk, which follows the Greenwich meridian.[2]

This is only the third statue on the United Kingdom of a black woman, and the first by a black sculptor. The other two are the one of Mary Seacole outside St Thomas’s hospital and a representation of black motherhood in Stockwell. Reaching Out would have been the fourth if the artist Marc Quinn had succeeded in persuading authorities in Bristol to keep his pop-up sculpture of Jen Reid, the Black Lives Matter protester, longer than 25 hours.[2]

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gollark: Fine, infinite tessellations then.
gollark: Just give all your windows a 3D position and size, have ways to move them around somehow, and have camera controls.
gollark: Not what I meant.
gollark: Don't need it.

See also

References
  1. Thorpe, Vanessa (19 July 2020). "Sculptor unveils 'black everywoman' as UK row over statues and race grows". The Observer. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  2. Brown, Mark (5 August 2020). "Sculptor's black 'everywoman' erected on public art walk in London". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  3. Kilb, Andreas. "Kino: „Berlin Alexanderplatz": Über den Rand der deutschen Wirklichkeit". FAZ.NET (in German). Retrieved 19 July 2020.
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