Queen Alexandra (1)

I was asked by the Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA) to choose a public sculpture that I particularly admired (see below). I chose the fine statue of Queen Alexandra, which is on Stepney Way at the back of the new London Hospital, not perhaps an obvious choice, but deriving from a time when sculpture was a normal part of public commemoration, in a way that it can now feel a touch unnatural or forced – and there are not many artists who can do it effectively:-

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