Douglas Jennings
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Douglas Jennings MRSS (born 24 September 1966)[citation needed] is an English sculptor and a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.[1]
Career
Jennings studied Classical
Between 1999 and 2003 he specialized in portrait sculpture for Madame Tussauds and was responsible for waxwork models of Ken Livingstone, Charles Kennedy, Robin Williams and Nicolas Cage in 2008.
Jennings trained as a classical sculptor and is a life member of the
Jennings completed a bronze memorial of
In 2015 the quality of Douglas's work was commended by the
In 2016 Jennings was commissioned to create a bronze memorial statue of Margaret Thatcher dressed in full ceremonial robes of the House of Lords. The piece was planned to be erected in Parliament Square, but controversially, Westminster council turned down the plan because of what officials describe as "monument saturation".[8] On 15 May 2022, the new statue was installed on St Peter's Hill Green in Thatcher's home town of Grantham, close to Grantham Museum, but was attacked with eggs within two hours of its unveiling.[9]
Jennings created a statue of
References
- ^ a b "Douglas Jennings MRSS". Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Royal British Society of Sculptors". rbs.org.uk. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ^ "Johnny Haynes". www.immortalsofbritishsport.com.
- ^ "Craven Cottage". www.footballgroundguide.com. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ^ "George Cohen". www.thepfa.com.
- ^ "Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture". Marsh Christian Trust. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ "PMSA's Marsh Award". 3rd-dimensionpmsa.org.uk.
- ^ Sawer, Patrick (17 January 2018). "Statue of Margaret Thatcher to be rejected because of 'monument saturation'". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Margaret Thatcher statue egg throwing condemned by university". BBC News. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ^ Proctor, Charlie (25 January 2016). "New statue of The Queen commissioned to mark her 90th birthday". royalcentral.co.uk.