Sheffield
Barker’s Pool House, on Burgess Street, has now been demolished.
The William Mitchell ten-panel abstract reliefs, commissioned in 1972, were removed last year (2020) and will be resited in nearby Pound’s Park once completed.
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William Mitchell
abstract relief, 1972
Burgess Street, S1
concrete
Location:
Opposite Cole Brothers side entrance on Burgess Street.
Description:
10 abstract concrete panels.
Commission:
An office and supermarket development. The work was carried out between January and May of 1972. [1]
Comment:
William Mitchell is now the Director of Design at Harrods. *See update below.
References:
[1] Sheffield Morning Telegraph: January 27, 1972, p.3
public-art.shu.ac.uk/sheffield/mitch115.html
*The work of William Mitchell (sculptor) (1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist.
William Mitchell (sculptor) (1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist.
William George Mitchell - Biography
(1925-2020.) Born in London, he studied art at the Southern College of Art, Portsmouth and at the Royal College of Art where he won a fourth year scholarship (The Abbey Award) which enabled him to study at the British School in Rome. He established the William Mitchell Design Consultants group and produced sculptures in plastics, concrete, wood, marble and brick. He has been a member of the Design Advisory Board, Hammersmith College of Art, and Trent Polytechnic, and is a member of Formwork Advisory Committee and the Concrete Society. He has many pieces throughout the country, including Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral entrance; Three Tuns public house, Coventry (1966). Exhibitions include a joint show held at the Engineering and Building Centre, Broad Street, Birmingham (1967), where he showed three over-life-size figures, The Magi, which were made from Thermalite load-bearing aerated concrete building blocks, produced by Thermalite Ltd, Lea Marston. Sources: ‘Painter’s search for peace’, Birmingham Post, 11 May 1967; Pereira, Dawn, William Mitchell, MA thesis, University of East London, 1998. [WCS2003]
www.publicsculpturesofsussex.co.uk/maker?is=maker&id=231
See also:-
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mitchell_(sculptor)
www.the-modernist.org/news/2018/6/2/william-mitchell-arti...
Sheffield
Barker’s Pool House, on Burgess Street, has now been demolished.
The William Mitchell ten-panel abstract reliefs, commissioned in 1972, were removed last year (2020) and will be resited in nearby Pound’s Park once completed.
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William Mitchell
abstract relief, 1972
Burgess Street, S1
concrete
Location:
Opposite Cole Brothers side entrance on Burgess Street.
Description:
10 abstract concrete panels.
Commission:
An office and supermarket development. The work was carried out between January and May of 1972. [1]
Comment:
William Mitchell is now the Director of Design at Harrods. *See update below.
References:
[1] Sheffield Morning Telegraph: January 27, 1972, p.3
public-art.shu.ac.uk/sheffield/mitch115.html
*The work of William Mitchell (sculptor) (1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist.
William Mitchell (sculptor) (1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist.
William George Mitchell - Biography
(1925-2020.) Born in London, he studied art at the Southern College of Art, Portsmouth and at the Royal College of Art where he won a fourth year scholarship (The Abbey Award) which enabled him to study at the British School in Rome. He established the William Mitchell Design Consultants group and produced sculptures in plastics, concrete, wood, marble and brick. He has been a member of the Design Advisory Board, Hammersmith College of Art, and Trent Polytechnic, and is a member of Formwork Advisory Committee and the Concrete Society. He has many pieces throughout the country, including Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral entrance; Three Tuns public house, Coventry (1966). Exhibitions include a joint show held at the Engineering and Building Centre, Broad Street, Birmingham (1967), where he showed three over-life-size figures, The Magi, which were made from Thermalite load-bearing aerated concrete building blocks, produced by Thermalite Ltd, Lea Marston. Sources: ‘Painter’s search for peace’, Birmingham Post, 11 May 1967; Pereira, Dawn, William Mitchell, MA thesis, University of East London, 1998. [WCS2003]
www.publicsculpturesofsussex.co.uk/maker?is=maker&id=231
See also:-
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mitchell_(sculptor)
www.the-modernist.org/news/2018/6/2/william-mitchell-arti...