ONCE PARALYSED, NOW A SCULPTOR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 November 1928, Page 6

ONCE PARALYSED, NOW A SCULPTOR

MEDALLIST AT 1",

LONDON ARTIST'S TRIUMPH A .story of an artist's triumph over difficulties attaches to a huge bas-relief representing St- Philip, raising Paolo j-'abrizio from the dead, which will shortly be on view at the Bro'inpton Oratory, says the '"Bally Chronicle." The'work, which contains n ton and a-lialf of clay, is one of a series ot seven which is being done for the Oratory by Mr Laurence Bradshaw. a sculptor who was at one time completely paralysed as a result of war injuries. Mr Bradshaw showed a remTsentative i-l' the -Daily ( hroniclc'' Hie firs! <ii the series he lias completed a! his studio in St. I'eter's Si;ilare. "| luul no dciinite intention <,i In coming a s< tdplor." he sod. •■| was t.-ld as a stndenl that all gocd artists should have some I raining in sculpture, and as I wauled In he a painter i took this training. "I attended classes at the Liverpool School of Art, and won a bronze medal in a nalii i competition when I was 15. "i did practically no sculpture after that, hut was engaged chiefly in inak in" designs for scenei v in the theatre. •1 have, however, closely studied anatoniv, and have tii .roughly enjoyed mv six'moiiths' work on the bas-relief." '•J',, avoid fort slioileiiing and distortion ~i' [ijjuivs placed In-h up. the ;:,!>! ha, made all the figures in the relief lean forward.