{"id":257774,"date":"2026-01-29T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257774\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:14:08","slug":"life-size-beryl-cook-sculptures-appear-around-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257774\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-size Beryl Cook sculptures appear around Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jolly Sailor sculpture has taken up residence on a bench outside The Dolphin Pub in The Barbican and The Cheerful Shopper can be found outside Plymouth Market. <\/p>\n

The Bowls Player has been placed next to the Hoe public bowling green and Ruby Venezuela stands near the former Lockyer Tavern.<\/p>\n

Sophie Howe, Cook’s granddaughter, said: “Beryl loved Plymouth and Plymouth loved her back.<\/p>\n

“Seeing her characters come to life in the actual places she painted them \u2013 The Hoe, the pubs, the market \u2013 would have absolutely delighted her.”<\/p>\n

Jemima Laing, deputy leader of Plymouth City Council, said: “These sculptures are Plymouth’s way of saying thank you to an artist who never stopped celebrating us.” <\/p>\n

The exhibition Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy, external<\/a> is at The Box in Plymouth until 31 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jolly Sailor sculpture has taken up residence on a bench outside The Dolphin Pub in The Barbican…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257775,"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":{"0":"post-257774","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-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257774","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=257774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}