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SHEFFIELD
Bernard Schottlander

Although I make only large permanent The sculpture is 20 ft high x 19 ft 6in.
sculpture, this is the first time I have been able wide x 9 ft deep. It is made in in. steel plate,
to place a piece in a city centre for any length of weighs 8 tons, is rustproofed by metallization
time. Perhaps some kind of public reaction will with a .004 in. thick coat of zinc and it is
filter back to me by the time the project is over. finished in eggshell Post Office red oil paint.0
I consider myself lucky that my work and
experience fit easily within the scope of the
project. This project was, in my experience of it,
extremely well organized. The organizers kept
their cool in a complex situation, full of hidden
pitfalls, involving artist, fabricators and the Work for Arundel Gate (adjoining Crucible Theatre)
labyrinth of local government. Sheffield

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