Once Paralysed Now a Sculptor

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 515, 19 November 1928, Page 13

Once Paralysed Now a Sculptor

Medallist at 15 LONDON ARTIST’S TRIUMPH A story of an artist's triumph over difficulties attaches to a huge basrelief representing St. Philip, raising Paolo Fabrizio from the dead, which will shortly be on view at the Brompton Oratory, says the “Daily Chronicle.” The work, which contains a ton and a-half of clay, is one of a series of seven which is being done for the Oratory by Mr. Laurence Bradshaw, a sculptor who was at one time completely paralysed as a result of war injuries. Mr. Bradshaw showed a representative of the “Daily Chronicle" the first of the series he has completed at his studio in St. Peter’s Square. “I had no definite intention of becoming a sculptor,” he said. “1 was told as a student that all good artists should have some training in sculpture, and as I wanted to be a painter I took this training. “I attended classes at the Liverpool School of Art, and won a bronze medal in a national competition when I was 15. “I did practically no sculpture after that, but was engaged chiefly in making designs for scenery in the theatre. “I hare, however, closely studied anatomy, and have thoroughly enjoyed my six months’ work on the bas-relief.” To avoid foreshortening and. distortion of figures placed high up, the artist has made all the figures in the relief lean forward.