A police officer watches as a man wearing a Spiderman mask uses a hammer and chisel to damage the Prospero and Ariel statue by Eric Gill, outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, in an apparent ...

A sculpture by Eric Gill outside BBC Broadcasting House in central London has been unveiled following restoration works; the piece is also accompanied by a text with details of the artist's ...

Above its main entrance, Prospero and Ariel, Eric Gill’s 1931 sculpture, has now been encased in a transparent box, meaning that it looks like something you put 20p in to see some puppets dancing.

The BBC has come under scrutiny for restoring a statue by Eric Gill despite public calls for its removal due to the artist’s history of abuse. In 2022, a protester attempted to damage the statue ...

A protester has pleaded not guilty to attacking a statue by Eric Gill outside the BBC headquarters - said to have caused more than £150,000 worth of damage. David Chick, 58, of Bozeat ...

The statue, which depicts Prospero and Ariel from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, was created by Eric Gill Gill was among the most prominent sculptors of the 20th Century. After his death ...

This is because Gill – an artist feted in his day for his public works and influential typography, notably Gill Sans – was revealed in a 1989 biography to have sexually abused his two ...