some of the Where What When etc

‘This is Rotherham’

South Yorkshire Passenger Executive commissioned Hilary to refurbish the nine 4x3meter screens that line the runway of the Transport Interchange (bus station) in Rotherham. This was part of a major refurbishment project for the Interchange. Workshops to develop imagery were undertaken in the 6 most local schools, which included artwork in class and out in the town.

The children’s artwork features directly in the screens which were designed and cut by Hilary in steel, working with Mayflower Engineering to finish and install the screens 1997

Cherish Life

commissioned by Mulberry Homes Yorkshire for Sowerby Gateway at Thirsk, North Yorkshire. installed 2016

Engagement sessions were held in the secondary school, local youth groups, and writing group and images, relief work and poetry form the ‘leaf galls’ on the reverse of the oakleaf, and the Poem Cherish Life became the sculpture’s title.

As an ook cometh of a litel spyr,

each becoming host to communities we can see, and those that we cannot.

Evolving.

Look further past the horizon of your memory, wars and time pass, yet we thrive.

Expanding communities are we.

Cherish life.

Great oaks from little acorns grow

Ellen Hoida 2015

Stainless steel and steel

Echo

commissioned by Rugby City Council as part of a major refurbishment project in Caldecot Park, Rugby 2009. Hilary won an open competition to design and make a sculpture which fitted the title of ‘Echo’. A Victorian bronze sited in the park ‘Echo’ was melted down during the war effort in the 20th century. Hilary has subverted the Greek myth and made a positive, joyous interpretation of an attempt at sound, in this case trying to blow notes from an enormous tuba. Engagement sessions with the public were undertaken in the Museum, local nursery and with the public in the bandstand.

stainless steel, bronze and cast glass - 3m tall

commemorative sulpture Florence Paton

This sculpture of Nottinghamshire’s first woman MP stands in a small public garden in Carlton. She was commissioned by Gedling Borough Council 2019 and is made in stainless steel, steel and cast steel. Florence Paton was a member of the Labour party, was the first woman to be appointed to the speaker’s panel and to preside over the House of Commons. She served on the UN General Assembly Social Humanitarian and Cultural Committee and sought to improve the education of all children and she also worked towards abolishing war. The Sculpture contains various elements representing some of the key points of her achievements and what she stood for including a cast steel mining pick and battery pack as her constituency included Gedling Pit, the Labour party Rose, Nottinghamshire’s oak leaves, House of Commons portcullis, books.

Papplewick Green

commissioned by Ashfield District Council

Working with Michael Johnson, this was a year-long project designed to create connections within the new community of 800 new homes, working with residents to design and create artworks for permanent siting within the estate. A number of seating artworks, which became known as settles, were designed and made in Cor-Ten steel filled with pebbles and capped with an individual artwork panel that included images and poetry made and written by members of the local community.

Reflection in Flight

Commissioned by Ashfield District Council. One of nine artworks made for and with the community of Papplewick Green housing estate . ‘Reflection of Flight’ was sited and named by Beardall Fields Primary School. Stainless steel, Cor-Ten steel and pebbles 2018. its design and creation followed a number of hands-on art-making workshops with four year groups in Beardall Fields Primary. Their 3D constructed card birds, were displayed for 6 months in the local CoOp, and these informed the stainless birds within the nest of the tree structure.