Sculpture - Burngreave Messenger

Local artists plan sculpture for Abbeyfield

4th April 2022

Story and photos by Martin Currie. Our attempt to get a sculpture for Abbeyfield Park has taken a step closer to reality. We managed to get funding for public consultation, and initial design work, by [Read more]

Spot the pigeon

4th April 2022

If you’re thinking our Messenger pigeon logo this issue looks more like a pterosaur, then you’re not wrong. Made out of Play-Doh, it was created by Martin Currie at one of the sculpture workshops hosted [Read more]

Monumental exhibition of burial art

4th April 2022

Story by Saleema Imam | Photo by Victoria Smith. An exhibition about World Burial practices is currently open in the North chapel in Burngreave cemetery until May this year. An informative book about the exhibition [Read more]

Sculpt Your Park – Workshops in Abbeyfield House

3rd February 2022

Help design a statue for Abbeyfield Park with local sculptor Jason Turpin Thomson at Abbeyfield Park House. Have a go at copper embossing something to take home. Help Jason with ideas for what you’d like [Read more]

Burngreave Academy dragon invasion

16th December 2019

Story and photos by Tim Neal On Tuesday 19th November, students at Astrea Academy came face-to-face with a lifesize, fire-breathing, paper dragon made from 1,200 A4 pieces of paper. Thirteen metres long, with a wingspan [Read more]

Anna-Mercedes Wear – the people’s potter

5th November 2018

Story by Nico Hall and Anne Smithies | Photos by Ben Boswell The ceramicist Anna-Mercedes Wear died this September of cancer at St Luke’s Hospice with family beside her. Anna lived in Firth Park and [Read more]