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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 ...
The statue was unveiled with a new protective covering on Wednesday morning A controversial statue carved by the sculptor Eric Gill has been restored and has been unveiled outside the BBC's London ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...