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I am a public sculptor and painter living in Yorkley. Local sculptures include the monument to the miners of the Forest of Dean in the Cinderford triangle which was commissioned by Cinderford District Council and Labour Party to celebrate the Millennium in 2000.More recently an 8ft long relief on the site of the Waterloo Colliery Screens near Upper Lydbroke was commissioned by the Royal Forest of Dean Free miners' Association to commemorate the Waterloo Colliery disaster of 30th June 1949. Old flooded mine workings were breeched and the pit rapidly flooded. What could have been a disaster was prevented by the actions of a small number of men and no lives were lost. some men returned to the flooded mine repeatedly to rescue colleagues. The mine cat was saved but the pit ponies sadly drowned.
I recently completed an 8ft bronze of the late Queen Elizabeth II for a site in South Korea she visited during her official tour of 1999. It will be sited in the garden of a house in Hahoe cultural village in Andong province where she took tea on her 73rd birthday.
I am currently working on a 10ft bronze sculpture of pilot poet John Gillespie Magee. Born of English and American parents and a citizen of Washington DC, he was educated at Rugby school. He turned down a place at Yale University to be trained as a pilot in Canada, From there he joined a Spitfire squadron based near the village of Wellingore in Lincolnshire. During high altitude flying he conceived the idea for his famous poem about the ecstasy of flight called 'High flight'. Sadly he died in a mid air collision at the age of 19 in 1941. The sculpture will be situated at the International Bomber Command Museum at Lincoln.
In 2022, my Memorial to George Boole FRS was unveiled in the forecourt of Lincoln railway station. He was a self taught mathematical genius whose most famous book was 'Laws of thought' He developed 'Boolean logic' which is the basis of all information technology today, including mobile phones, internet searches and every electronic gadget in existence. As an educationalist he encourage the education of both male and female pupils. He never went to University but became the first professor of Mathematics at the University of Cork. My son Tadeusz and his friend Freya modelled as the two pupils for the sculpture.
Finally I include a detail of a sculpture of a mother and child commissioned for the London Oratory School where it was unveiled by Cardinal Hume in 1996.
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The Old Baptist Chapel,Beech Road,GL154TJ
Email: antonydufort@hotmail.com
Phone Number: 01594563062
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