Veronica Ryan’s celebratory fruit are a lesson in how to do public sculpture
Hettie Judah, The i newspaper
October 2021
“I want the sculptures to be family,” the artist Veronica Ryan announced as she unveiled Britain’s first permanent monument to honour the Windrush Generation.
“I want the community to own them, and take care of them, and for children to wander around and sit on them.”
Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop (Annonaceae), the first permanent public sculpture by a black female artist in the UK, is positioned on the busy corner of Mare Street in Hackney, east London. […]