The sculpture will be hollow and cast in sections “like a Lindt bunny”, explained Menec.<\/p>\n
“There will be areas where there is no texture so they use stamps and chisels.<\/p>\n
“They refer to the original so they know where there should be stripes and where it should be smooth.”<\/p>\n
The bronze version will be sandblasted before the patination process, using metal salts and a gas gun, which presents a challenge in the summer heat.<\/p>\n
“We are in a metal shed with a metal roof with up to six people with gas torches going at the same time,” said Menac.<\/p>\n
“With Susie, we will have to patinate the areas that are silver and tan. The gold areas will need to be brushed back.”<\/p>\n
Susie moved to Dorchester with owners Linda and Michael Crow when they came to stay with their daughter, Jenny Graves, in 2023.<\/p>\n
After receiving multiple calls from people believing she was lost, they changed her name tag to say “Susie – not lost, just adventurous”.<\/p>\n
Facebook followers share sightings of the cat, which has also featured in a children’s book, postcards and a calendar, raising thousands for charity.<\/p>\n
The 38cm-high (15in) statue, commissioned by a local historian, will be installed outside Julia’s House charity shop at eye level for small children, on a 75cm-high (30in) plinth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sculpture will be hollow and cast in sections “like a Lindt bunny”, explained Menec. “There will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-596829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596829","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=596829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}