Campaigners working to install a statue of a Dorset novelist have shelved plans for a book to accompany the project after being hit with an unexpected \u00a35,000 bill.<\/p>\n
Visible Women crowdfunded for the life-sized bronze of Sylvia Townsend Warner for Dorchester’s South Street but had not factored in the cost of groundworks.<\/p>\n
It said the additional expense meant some side projects, including a book about Dorset’s forgotten women, would be postponed or cancelled.<\/p>\n
Anya Pearson, who launched the project, said a separate problem involving site restrictions on the pedestrian shopping street was preventing installation work from being carried out during the day.<\/p>\n
It’s feared a delay could affect the planned unveiling on 14 December.<\/p>\n
Ms Pearson said she hoped the restrictions could be resolved at a planned site meeting with Dorset Council representatives on Monday.<\/p>\n
She said: “We have had the disappointment of having to pay for the groundworks. We’ve had this huge bill that’s wiped out our contingency.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want to [change the date]. We wanted to do the unveiling in December because that’s her [Townsend Warner’s] birthday month.”<\/p>\n
A Dorset Council spokesperson said: “Our aim is to minimise any potential impact on businesses and pedestrians, particularly during the busy pre-Christmas period, whilst supporting the charitable nature of this project.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to liaise with Visible Women UK to agree on suitable timings and working methods that balance safety, accessibility and operational requirements.”<\/p>\n
Visible Women shared pictures on social media of the assembled statue on the new bench at sculptor Denise Dutton’s studio.<\/p>\n
The artist is adding finishing details before the sculpture is installed outside Gould’s department store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners working to install a statue of a Dorset novelist have shelved plans for a book to accompany…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-302347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}