News 2008

August 2008. Completed Stainless panels for Waitrose.The panels are cherry tree’s to commemorate the loss of the local pub called the ‘The Cherry tree’ ,demolished to make way for the new car-park at the welwyn branch!

2008 May. Completed the installation of sculptures for South Gloucestershire County Couuncil at the new Kingsforest Primary School station rd,Kingswood,Bristol.
The theme is simply to celebrate ‘Our Wonderful World’ and perhaps encourage a few naturalist’s as it happens to be the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth next year.

Bird of Paradise and Chameleon,

Mudskipper and Fiddler Crab.

Octopus,pufferfish,Turtle ,Marine Iguana ,Scorpion,Cobra,Clown fish,Flightless Cormorant ,Platypus,Humming bird,Tarsier and Tree frog attached to beam in library.

Cobra and Scorpion.

Clown fish,Flightless Cormorant,Platypus,Hummingbird,Tarsier and Tree frog.

Octopus,puffer fish,Turtle,Marine Iguana.

Tarsier.

In the beginning was the word.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

John Lennon beetle.

Stingray in stairwell.

Squid in stairwell

Stainless steel Bat gate ,main entrance.

Bat detail on gate.

Dormouse detail on gate.

2008 February, made a sculpture of a six plumed bird of Paradise for Sir David Attenborough.

Sir Davids work has raised greatly our awareness of environmental issues, so it seemed appropriate to the artist to create his sculpture from a discarded pedal bin.

2007 Working on the concept of small but effective street advertising .

2007 Have just submitted a design for a sculpture for the RLNI in conjunction with Alex Johnson landscape architect.

2007 December Working on designs for two artistic panels.

2007 December, fleshing out some ideas for a restaurant revamp in Prince St Bristol.

2007 November.Currently working on a project for South Gloucestershire County Council ,creating a stainless steel gate and sculptures for the new Kingsforest Primary School to be opened in march 2008.

The theme is ‘ Our Wonderful World’, to include most species of the animal kingdom. Most of the sculptures will be incorporated into the steel beams of the library.

The gate depicts a nocturnal view of Bulrushes with a reed warbler nesting amongst the reeds, a field Cricket a Dormouse and a Bat flying across a crescent moon.The reeds are bound together with a spiders web.

2007 Working on designs for artistic window screens for a NHS Hospital in the Southwest.

2006 Create a new sign for The Organic Chocolate Cake Company
in Oxford St Kingsdown. The Trifid like sculpture is based on a cocoa pod tree. Like the proprietor Dominic Vyyan-Jones we felt it was suitably eccentric and in keeping with his exotic cakes .

The local Secondary school at Cotham use it as a prop for some of their art classes and as an example of art in the community.

October 2004

Latest project involved the design and installation of 25’ high stainless steel Barley for the supermarket chain Waitrose. The sculpture was met with approval by staff and customers alike.

The scale of the sculpture was intended to reflect the bounty to be found at the store not the result of some run away GM project! Since completing the sculpture in september 2004 the Artist has been able to extend his range to include the use of 316 grade stainless steel thus allowing for maintenance free sculptures.

Evening Post. Tuesday, April 9, 2002

Artist Julian Warren spent months creating his latest piece, but it took the help of a dozen friends to finally put it into place.

Volunteers helped Julian haul the quarter-ton bench by hand up Narroways Hill in St Werburghs where it now proudly sits, affording spectacular views of the city.

The seat is formed liked a rolled up railway track with extra touches including a friendly toad, a snail and spider’s web.

The millenium sculpture, paid for with a lottery grant, is also etched with the names of eminent people from the past starting with ‘lucy’ the 3.5 million year old hominid from Africa to the greek philosophers Euclid,Pythagorus and Archimedes;modern men of science and art such as Newton, Einstein,Mozart and Picasso are also included along with many others.
The bench has a piston and crank to one side giving it an engineered ‘Time machine’ like quality.
The twenty-three slats not only reflect the track of time but also the pairs of chromosomes to be found in the human body.
The spiders web represents the solar system with the planets orbiting the large spider at the centre,again refers to our place in the Universe.
On the seat are the words ‘Our seat’ to give the person sitting on it at any given time a sense of belonging!
The toad is there to keep you company, and on a good day you can see forever…............

A sculptor whose animal figures are so realistic they have even been put on permanent exibition in Bristol Zoo, has given a unique touch to the last Waitrose supermarket being opened this year at Oakmount Road, Chandler’s Ford. “We wanted a special feature as a focal point to help us blend into the town,” said Branch Manager Andy Compton before Tuesday’s opening. “It had to be food related – and I thinks it’s certainly eye-catching.” The Warren sculptures at the branch – described by the artist himself as “the giant squids” – include several kinds of sea foods…spider crabs, squid, prawns and the like. “I think the new figures for Waitrose are quite different – certainly the first time I’ve had to create food for a supermarket” he laughs. The sculptures definately held the attention of the long queue waiting for the opening.
Larry Signy, Waitrose, the chronicle, 30 November 2002

Western Daily Press. Tuesday, March 19, 2002

After battling to complete his latest work, artist Julian Warren is facing a new challenge.

Exactly how he can shift a large steel sculpture up a even larger hill.

Evening Post. Friday, November 23, 2001

Bristol Zoo has two giant stag beetle sculptures as a new addition to its popular gardens.

The Clifton-based attraction commissioned Bristol Sculptor Julian P. Warren to create the insects – called Ying and Yang – for the gardens.

At eleven feet long each jet black, the artwork was moved from their temporary home in Redland to encourage more people to visit the zoo’s Bug World section.

The harmless stag beetles are most often found in the southern and central areas of Britain, including Bristol.

When the sculptures were on Julians front lawn awaiting transport to the Zoo an elderly lady enquired are those’ life-size’, she was assured that if they were panic might ensue!

Zoo spokeswoman Caroline Badminton said; “In recent years their numbers have been declining and they are now nationally scarce.

Their decline can be traced to the loss of broad-leaved woodland and parkland through clear-felling and replacement with conifers.

What the papers say…

Evening Post. Friday, November 16, 2001

Take a stroll down one Redland side street and you’ll get a real walk on the wild side.

The ‘Fence’ in Burlington rd.

The sculptor Julian.P.Warren has created a garden fence that invites you in!
A wave of creativity spills onto the street,a complete menagerie !
Dragonfly, monkey, platypus, turtle, crocodile, armadillo, octopus, mudskipper, chameleon, crow, bird of paradise and even a jellyfish!