{"id":140826,"date":"2025-11-18T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140826\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:36:06","slug":"sculptor-laurence-edwards-to-create-landmark-art-for-lowestoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140826\/","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":140827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-140826","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-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}