{"id":3460,"date":"2016-10-15T16:41:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T16:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collective.stonedthemes.com\/v3\/?page_id=3460"},"modified":"2025-01-12T12:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T12:36:50","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1476868363828{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1683030180108{background-color: #cca57c !important;}&#8221;][sth_slider slider=&#8221;3461&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1476868529600{margin-bottom: 5px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fab fa-facebook&#8221; color=&#8221;custom&#8221; align=&#8221;right&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fprofile.php%3Fid%3D100051374928116|title:Facebook%20page|target:_blank&#8221; custom_color=&#8221;#20adc9&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fab fa-instagram&#8221; color=&#8221;custom&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fsandersonsculpture%2F|title:Instagram%20page|target:_blank&#8221; custom_color=&#8221;#20adc9&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #34a1bf;\">Explore More of Our Sculptures on Social Media \u2013 Apologies for the Outdated Website as We Rebuild!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our website is currently being re-built to include more of the many projects we have worked on. It is currently a little out of date, so please see our <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100051374928116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> <\/span>and <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sandersonsculpture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> <\/span>pages for our latest projects, of which we are very proud.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Beautifully crafted, ingenious focal points, for permanent display.<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1476868529600{margin-bottom: 5px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Based in Herefordshire with his young family, on the border between England and Wales, Matt creates Big Art \u2013 beautifully crafted, ingenious focal points for permanent display. His 20 years of prolific making have led to over seventy installed civic projects across the U.K and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>He is a commissioned sculptor of steel, copper and bronze and despite these materials resistant nature is known for creating bold yet delicate and graceful sculptures with natural themes and mythic creatures on a monumental scale.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Large scale feats of civic fine art are now familiar territory. Which include his work with Dr. John Taylor creating the \u2018Chronophage\u2019 AKA \u2018The Corpus Clock\u2019 in Cambridge (U.K.) which receives over five million visitors annually. Recently in 2017 a major work \u2018Crowned Stag\u2019 was unveiled. Sited in Beaulieu, Chelmsford and reaching three storeys tall, weighing six tons and two hundred and seventy eight cubic metres in volume It is set to become a major local tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Whether big or small he invests heavily in primary observation, is uncompromising in the distillation of concepts and has become expert at fusing structural Art with natural Engineering.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1476868363828{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1683030180108{background-color: #cca57c !important;}&#8221;][sth_slider slider=&#8221;3461&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1476868529600{margin-bottom: 5px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fab fa-facebook&#8221; color=&#8221;custom&#8221; align=&#8221;right&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fprofile.php%3Fid%3D100051374928116|title:Facebook%20page|target:_blank&#8221; custom_color=&#8221;#20adc9&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_icon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanderson-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}