Author Archives: Ian Wolter

Safe Haven
Safe Haven is a life size, bronze sculpture of five Kindertransport refugee children walking down a gangplank, completing their journey to Harwich just before the outbreak of the Second World War.

Safe Haven
Safe Haven is a life size, bronze sculpture of five Kindertransport refugee children walking down a gangplank, completing their journey to Harwich just before the outbreak of the Second World War.

Eglantyne Jebb Memorial
Eglantyne Jebb: founder of Save the Children and a pioneer of children’s human rights.

Eglantyne Jebb Memorial
Eglantyne Jebb: founder of Save the Children and a pioneer of children’s human rights.

Meritocracy
Thinking again about leaders who see themselves as first among equals, while ignoring their advantages and other’s disadvantages.

Meritocracy
Thinking again about leaders who see themselves as first among equals, while ignoring their advantages and other’s disadvantages.

The Children of Calais
The Children of Calais is a life-sized sculpture of six children in poses echoing The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin, but dressed in contemporary clothing. One of the figures holds a lifejacket in place of the city key held in Rodin’s original.

The Children of Calais
The Children of Calais is a life-sized sculpture of six children in poses echoing The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin, but dressed in contemporary clothing. One of the figures holds a lifejacket in place of the city key held in Rodin’s original.

The Knowledge
The Knowledge appears to be a traditional TV game-show, perhaps from the 1980s. Its highlight though, is a race across London between a traditional black cab, and a smart-phone equipped uber cab.

The Knowledge
The Knowledge appears to be a traditional TV game-show, perhaps from the 1980s. Its highlight though, is a race across London between a traditional black cab, and a smart-phone equipped uber cab.

Memorial to Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek was Britain’s first female special agent of WW2. This memorial to her was commissioned by Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club, London.

Memorial to Krystyna Skarbek
Krystyna Skarbek was Britain’s first female special agent of WW2. This memorial to her was commissioned by Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club, London.

The View from Here
The world’s first beachball orrery, a working model of the solar system which includes many different sized, illuminated beach balls, the biggest over a metre across.

The View from Here
The world’s first beachball orrery, a working model of the solar system which includes many different sized, illuminated beach balls, the biggest over a metre across.

The Ectoplasm of Self-Delusion
The Ectoplasm of Self-Delusion addresses many business leaders’ mistaken belief that their success has been the result of just their own capability, ignoring both their advantages and others’ disadvantages. As white middle aged men, they are first amongst unequals.

The Ectoplasm of Self-Delusion
The Ectoplasm of Self-Delusion addresses many business leaders’ mistaken belief that their success has been the result of just their own capability, ignoring both their advantages and others’ disadvantages. As white middle aged men, they are first amongst unequals.

The Holy See Gets It
The title, The Holy See Gets It, quotes Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s former sex crimes prosecutor, and the work addresses the devastating 2014 report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child into the Vatican’s handling of the clerical sexual abuse of children.

The Holy See Gets It
The title, The Holy See Gets It, quotes Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s former sex crimes prosecutor, and the work addresses the devastating 2014 report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child into the Vatican’s handling of the clerical sexual abuse of children.

Revolver
Revolver began as a creative means of simultaneously constructing and destroying, of casting and melting, a human head. A continuous profile mould inspired by Renato Bertelli’s ‘Head of Mussolini’ was used to produce a wax positive suggestive of a head carved out of a rough block of alabaster or marble.

Revolver
Revolver began as a creative means of simultaneously constructing and destroying, of casting and melting, a human head. A continuous profile mould inspired by Renato Bertelli’s ‘Head of Mussolini’ was used to produce a wax positive suggestive of a head carved out of a rough block of alabaster or marble.