Sculptor. Born Solihull. Committed socialist and campaigner. His work celebrates the heroes of liberation. The picture source web site splendidly shows many of his works and provides context for the subjects depicted.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Ian Walters
Creations i
Bronze Woman
This was the first statue of a black woman to be on permanent display anywher...
Fenner Brockway statue
The statue, by Ian Walters and unveiled (very appropriately) by Michael Foot,...
International Brigade
The quote “they went….other way” is a paraphrase of two lines from C. Day Lew...
Nelson Mandela - bust
Bronze, erected (second time) August 1988. We found the following news report...
Nelson Mandela - statue
Unveiled by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the presence of London Mayor Ken L...
Other Subjects
3 memorials
Francis John Williamson
Sculptor. Born Hampstead. Spent much of his life in Esher with Grapes House being his home and studio. Specialised in portraits of Queen Victoria who favoured him.
1 memorial
Hedley Hope-Nicholson
Barrister, literary critic and Charles I obsessive. He hyphenated his Nicholson with his wife's Hope. Andrew Behan researched this eccentric character, bur first a preamble from Andrew: "I couldn'...
2 memorials
Glynn Williams
Sculptor. Born in Shrewsbury. On graduating from the Wolverhampton College of Art, he won a Rome scholarship for sculpture and lived and worked at the British School in Rome for a number of years. ...
2 memorials
Simon Smith
Sculptor. Served his apprenticeship at Woburn Abbey. Studied stone carving and sculpture at the City and Guilds of London School of Art, where he obtained a first.
1 memorial