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Limbo
Wright, Austin (1911-1997)
1958
'Limbo' is composed of 26 lead pieces created from drawings and observations made on seaside holidays in Anglesey and Cornwall in the 1950s. Austin Wright was Gregory Fellow in Sculpture at the Univer...
Sculpture for Charles Morris Hall
Boden, Neville (1929-1996)
1969
Neville Boden was Gregory Fellow in Sculpture (1965-1968); this piece was originally designed for Charles Morris Hall Common Room, and there is a watercolour and a maquette relating to it in the Art C...
Lying Down Figure/Reclining Figure VI
McWilliam, F E (1909-1992)
1961
An Irish painter turned sculptor, McWilliam’s capricious imagination attracted him to the British surrealists in the late 1930s. Serving in India during the Second World War, he afterwards taught at...
Linked Figures
Armitage, Kenneth (1916-2002)
1949, cast 1960
Born in Leeds, Armitage studied at Leeds College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His figurative pieces depict the human form by means of flat surfaces modelled in plaster and cast i...
Man-Made Fibres
Mitzi Cunliffe
1954-1956
The American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe (née Solomon) was born in New York and is renowned for having designed the famous theatrical mask for the BAFTA award. Cunliffe was active as a designer of jewel...
Lenten Cover
Lyons, Michael (1943-2019)
1979
Lyons was born in Bilston in Staffordshire and studied at Wolverhampton College of Art and the University of Newcastle. He was Head of Sculpture at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1989-93. Unt...
Texta Texens
Lawty, Sue (1954-); Jones, Dan; Mort, Helen
2016
Commissioned to celebrate the ‘Yorkshire Year of the Textile’ on campus in 2016, Sue Lawty’s Texta Texens is located in the walkway outside the Clotherworkers’ South Building. It develops a di...
untitled / ('A Celebration of Engineering Sciences')
Dearnley of D.& A. Models, Chiswick (after a design by Allan Johnson); Johnson, Allan - Lanchester & Lodge
1962
Allan Johnson was an architect by profession who worked for Lanchester & Lodge, a London practice with a long association with the University of Leeds. During the 1950s he worked on the Man-Made Fibre...