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New Blog Post: Bro. Simon Smith - Kick over the statues!

Asquith Gibbes memorial by Simon Smith, Lewisham Police Station, London. Photo by Ben Rice

Bro. Simon Smith's blog post explores the conversations around our complex history and how the role of statues is being reassessed. He examines his personal journey as a stone-carver, questioning whether a piece of work he has created and is proud of, should in fact exist at all. Do we even need statues and what are they for? Or is it time for newly commissioned statues to be made to help correct historic wrongs? 


To find out more, read Simon's blog post here.


 

Kitty Wilkinson statue by Simon Smith. Photo by Ben Rice

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