Laurence Edwards

DURING THE SUMMER OF 1999 I met that extraordinary sculptor, and extraordinary man, Laurence Edwards. I met Laurence in Suffolk...

One June morning I was following a footpath along the edge of a tidal creek near Snape in Suffolk, when...

There are very few people I would take with me on an anthropological expedition to the far northeast of Siberia....

After the Flood: Laurence Edwards’ six-foot male figure has collected a carapace of debris. Tree branches, grasses, matter both vegetable...

Laurence Edwards is renowned for the visceral nature of his sculptures, which artfully combine figurative portraiture with the landscape, presenting...

I grew up in a coal-mining country. Collieries were the highest structures around: the headstocks with their spinning wheels, the...

by Fiona Gruber, writer and broadcaster   Laurence Edwards’s studio is in an old fire station in Saxmundham, Suffolk; a...

In May 2020, it was widely reported how the North Magnetic Pole had apparently shifted. In fact, in recent years...

At Midday on the high tide of the 22nd March, 2016, A Thousand Tides was floated with the aid of...

WHENEVER I SEE A NEW WORK BY LAURENCE EDWARDS, I feel I am being confronted by an ancient and archetypal...

Two become one. Yoxman arrives. Big summer, finally the two halves of the Colossus joined. The Yoxman is a step...

In 2018 Edwards was awarded a commission by Doncaster Council to create a sculpture that celebrates the lives of those...

Homecoming has been commissioned for a new housing development that resides near the remains Norman campsite. The figure took inspiration...

The journey of The Carrier began when a ship spilt planks of wood off the coast of Suffolk. During the...