Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival (LH 293) is a bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore, commissioned by the Arts Council in 1949 for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The sculpture can be viewed as an abstraction of a reclining female human figure, resting on two arms, with a small head. By 1949, Moore was already recognised as Britain's greatest living sculptor, having won the prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948. The Arts Council suggested that a family group would be appropriate for its commission, based on the festival theme of "discovery", but Moore decided
Richard Stone (sculptor and painter) Richard Stone (sculptor and painter) Richard Stone is a British sculptor and painter and a fellow and trustee of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. He was born in 1974 in England and graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2000. In 2014 Stone was awarded the Brian Mercer Residency for Bronze Casting and in 2013 was awarded Arts Council England funding. Stone works between London and Pietrasanta, Italy. Works by Stone were included in "Sweep~Landskip (2018)", an exhibition of international artists whose work use landscape as a concept. In 2018, Stone exhibited marble works and a series of abstract paintings