Help Sculpture (EHER 48836)
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Summary
Help!, sculpture group in bronze of 1976 by F. E. McWilliam, mounted on a circular brick plinth and located outside St John’s Arts Centre, Harlow.
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Location
| Grid reference | TL 4710 1162 (point) |
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Type and Period
Description
2016. Listed Grade II.
Help!, sculpture group in bronze of 1976 by F E McWilliam, mounted on a circular brick plinth and located outside St John’s Arts Centre, Harlow.
Reasons for Designation
The sculpture group Help! Of 1976 by F E McWilliam, mounted on a circular brick plinth and located outside St John’s Arts Centre, Harlow is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Artistic interest: a powerful figurative group, charged with emotion, yet maintaining the ambiguity and surrealism for which F E McWilliam is renowned;
* Historic interest: as a rare example of public sculpture exploring the Northern Irish Troubles and the role of the women’s peace movement;
* Sculptor: an important late work by this acclaimed C20 sculptor;
* Group value: with the former Church of St John the Baptist, listed at Grade II.
Sources
- <1> SEX72891 DESC TEXT: 2015. Historic England Notification Report 1431428.