| 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. |
| Sculptor Julian Warren has decked out his garden fence
with his own managerie complete with a fish, dragonfly, monkey, and a crow. |
| 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 nine feet long each jet black, the artwork
was moved from thier 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. |
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. |
| 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. 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. More
Info... |
| 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 thousand years and features twenty-three slats of track to
represent the twenty-three chromosomes of the human body. |
A sculptor whose animal figures are so
realistic they have even been put on permanent exibition in Bristol
Zoo, has given a unque 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. More
Info...
October 2004
Latest project involved the design and installation of 20' 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 .eg The stainless steel Marlin
| 2007 Future proposed projects include public Sulptures in the Southeast , new artistic gates for a new Primary School in Bristol and artistic window screens for a NHS Hospital in the Southwest.
