{"id":391710,"date":"2026-04-22T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:06:09","slug":"artist-designs-bear-full-of-memory-for-dartford-sculpture-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391710\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist designs bear &#8216;full of memory&#8217; for Dartford sculpture trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An artist designing a sculpture for an art trail in her home town says the project is a chance to &#8220;do something worthwhile for charity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Illustrator Becky Shepperson is creating the Memory Bear for the We&#8217;re Going on a Bear Hunt sculpture trail in Dartford, Kent, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3vdd65vdr4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">begins in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trail, which will be in place for eight weeks, is a nod to the children&#8217;s book by Michael Rosen and raises awareness of the work Kent palliative care charity ellenor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My whole concept for the design was just being full of memory and joy and reminiscing,&#8221; Shepperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An artist designing a sculpture for an art trail in her home town says the project is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391711,"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-391710","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\/391710","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=391710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}