Throighout the pandemic I kept bumping in to a friend, a nurse Jane from St James hospital in the supermarket. Jane bew of my previous work creating sculptures and drawings of people in the emergency services. It felt like a natural progression to create a nurse sculpture. Jane put me in rouch with Emily who had started nursing in January 2020. I dedicated my time (eight months) to creating the clay model and raised £1500 for materials as well as friends donating there expertise to help make the work.

The sculpture now needs to be cast using jesmonite (an exterior material) and this costs £2500. I have raised £1000 from the Leeds Phil and Lit Society and need to fundraise the remaining money.

The plan is then to exhibit the sculpture in Leeda Museums and then site it in Leeds.

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