A public artwork in tribute to history-making referee Uriah Rennie is being developed with the help of the community.<\/p>\n
Rennie, who was the Premier League’s first black referee, died in June 2025 after being diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n
In honour of the trailblazing official, members of the public were invited to collaborate with artist Nicole White to help shape the bespoke artwork.<\/p>\n
The finished piece will go on display at the Uriah Rennie Leisure Centre in Arbourthone, which is due to be completed by Autumn 2028.<\/p>\n
The event, organised by Sheffield City Council, took place at Springs Leisure Centre.<\/p>\n
People were encouraged people to share their ideas, memories or reflections to explore Rennie’s legacy in the city.<\/p>\n
White said she hoped the consultation would bring together “different perspectives and different ways that he’s impacted lives”.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to try to make something that the community can be proud of,” she added.<\/p>\n
Both those who knew Rennie personally and others whose lives had been touched by his work came the event to share their connection to the man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A public artwork in tribute to history-making referee Uriah Rennie is being developed with the help of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644706,"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-644705","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\/644705","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=644705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}