Allan Sly

FRBS The Royal Society of Sculptors is a British charity established in 1905 which promotes excellence in the art and practice of sculpture. Its headquarters are a centre for contemporary sculpture on Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London. It ...

(born 1951) is an English sculptor and senior lecturer at

Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Arts, formerly Wimbledon School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London specialising in theatre, screen and performance art. It is located in Wimbledon and Merton Park, South West London. ...

, a constituent college of

University of the Arts London University of the Arts London is a collegiate university in London, England, specialising in arts, design, fashion and the performing arts. It is a federation of six arts colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea Coll ...

. Sly was elected a Fellow of the

Royal British Society of Sculptors The Royal Society of Sculptors is a British charity established in 1905 which promotes excellence in the art and practice of sculpture. Its headquarters are a centre for contemporary sculpture on Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London. It ...

in 1992.

Early life and education

Sly was born in 1951 in

Windsor Windsor may refer to: Places Australia * Windsor, New South Wales ** Municipality of Windsor, a former local government area * Windsor, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland **Shire of Windsor, a former local government authority around Wi ...

, and studied sculpture at the

City and Guilds of London Art School Founded in 1854 as the Lambeth School of Art, the City and Guilds of London Art School is a small specialist art college located in central London, England. Originally founded as a government art school, it is now an independent, not-for-profit ...

(1971–1974) and the

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

(1974–1977).

Selected works

''The Window Cleaner'' (1990), outside Edgware Road tube station in London, is a bronze statue of a workman carrying his ladders and peering up at the windows of the nearby Capital House for which it was commissioned. ''The Messenger'' or ''Getting Back on the Right Foot'' (1993), outside St Mary's Hospital is a bronze statue of a man leaning on a lamp-post to replace his right shoe. ''Runaway Rotavator'' (1994) in iron filled resin, was commissioned by Harlow Arts Trust for a site outside Harlow Sports Centre. ''The Spirit of Cricket'' (1997) was created to honour the former

Central Recreation Ground The Central Recreation Ground was a cricket ground in Hastings, East Sussex, used for first-class and List A cricket between 1864 and 1996. The ground was frequently used by Sussex County Cricket Club as one of their outgrounds from 1865; i ...

cricket ground in

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

, and stands outside the

Priory Meadow Shopping Centre Priory Meadow Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Hastings, East Sussex, England. The centre was opened in 1997 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The building was built on the site of the Central Recreation Ground, which had originally ope ...

which was built on the site. In November 2015 it was temporarily removed for repair, following impact from a

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. ''The Pearl Diver'' (1999) was commissioned by P&O for their liner the ''

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''. ''Newmarket Stallion'' (2000), a collaboration with Marcia Astor, is a rearing horse with its handler, standing high on a roundabout near Newmarket, commissioned as a millennium project. ''The Surrey Scholar'' (2002) in Guildford High Street was commissioned for the

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and posed considerable engineering challenges as the scholar balances on one toe and is on a steeply sloping site. ''Masquerade'' (2005) is a

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sculpture commissioned by and for the

Electric Theatre The Electric Theatre is a theatre located in Guildford, Surrey, England, which has gained a widespread reputation for promotion of the musical arts at all levels from community workshops to concerts by internationally well-known artists. The ...

in Guildford. ''The Surrey Stag'' (2009), standing at the entrance to the

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, Guildford, depicts a

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with a key, as used in the university's logo. ''Alec Bedser'' and ''Eric Bedser'' (2015) are life-size bronzes which celebrate cricketing twins

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and

Eric The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

from

Horsell Horsell is a village in the borough of Woking in Surrey, England, less than a mile north-west of Woking town centre. In November 2012, its population was 9,384. Horsell is integral to H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel ''The War of the Wor ...

, erected at each end of Bedser Bridge in

Woking Woking ( ) is a town and borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in northwest Surrey, England, around from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as ''Wochinges'' and its name probably derives from that of a Anglo-Saxon settlement o ...

. File:Window Cleaner Sculpture outside Edgware Road Underground Station - geograph.org.uk - 1635436.jpg, ''The Window Cleaner'', outside Edgware Road tube station, London File:Masquerade Sculpture, Guildford - Surrey..jpg, ''Masquerade'' at the Electric Theatre, Guildford File:The Surrey Scholar - geograph.org.uk - 1195084.jpg, ''The Surrey Scholar'', Guildford File:Priory Meadows Geograph-1271697-by-Paul-Gillett.jpg, ''The Spirit of Cricket'', Hastings File:Guildford MMB 03A University of Surrey.jpg, ''The Surrey Stag'', Guildford File:Newmarket Stallion - geograph.org.uk - 833722.jpg, ''Newmarket Stallion'', collaboration with Marcia Astor, Newmarket File:Alec Bedser statue.jpg, Alec Bedser statue, Woking File:Eric Bedser statue.jpg, Eric Bedser statue, Woking

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