{"id":145945,"date":"2025-11-18T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:03:07","slug":"sculptor-laurence-edwards-to-create-landmark-art-for-lowestoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145945\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptor Laurence Edwards to create landmark art for Lowestoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Edwards will be working with residents across all age groups to shape the theme and concept of the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While no location for the final piece has been announced, the artist will set up in the town&#8217;s former Post Office building when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj0qmz9l5nmo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reopens next year as an art hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors will be able to learn more about his creative processes and the making of the sculpture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will then be cast in his Halesworth foundry, jointly funded by the artist, his patrons and the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caroline Topping, leader of the council, said the work would &#8220;inspire residents and visitors alike&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Edwards will be working with residents across all age groups to shape the theme and concept of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-145945","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-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}