{"id":431873,"date":"2026-05-17T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431873\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:35:08","slug":"fantastic-creatures-to-be-carved-in-stone-at-dover-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431873\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fantastic creatures&#8217; to be carved in stone at Dover festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among those taking part, Carrie Horwood, from Kent, will carve a dog chasing its tail inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gayle Lazda, from London, will carve a dolphin, while Emily Guest and Alex Jubb, also from London, will work together on a lion with its tongue sticking out. Candida Wright, from Kent, will carve St Martin, patron saint of Dover, on horseback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three carvings have been inspired by images from stained glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marguerite Le Brusque, from France, will carve a dragon inspired by features in the Connaught Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adam Billaut, from France, will carve a fantastical animal and Thomas Kenrick, from Loughborough, will take his inspiration from a dragon grotesque on a parapet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among those taking part, Carrie Horwood, from Kent, will carve a dog chasing its tail inspired by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431874,"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-431873","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\/431873","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=431873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}