Rick Kirby
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Rick Kirby is an English sculptor born in Gillingham, Kent. He started his career as an art teacher, before quitting after sixteen years to focus on his work. Much of his work is figural, reflecting a
Kirby's Formation (2003) stands on the entrance to the Ravenswood housing estate in Ipswich, Suffolk. It is inspired by a World War II-era poster depicting aircraft flying in close formation being tracked by searchlights.
Sutton Hoo Helmet (2002)
Sutton Hoo
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Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have excavated the site since the discovery of a previously
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…size. His pieces range in height from one to ten metres; his 2002 sculpture Sutton Hoo Helmet, modelled after the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial and unveiled by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, is 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) tall and 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in) deep, and weighs 900 kilograms…
The Sutton Hoo burial site
The Wicklaw region
Finds from Mound 17
Mound 2 is the only Sutton Hoo tumulus to have been reconstructed to its estimated original height