A4A Art for Architecture & John McKenna create bronze sculpture, public art sculpture, brick relief sculpture, architectural relief art, garden statuary, terracotta sculpture, glazed brick friezes, stone carving, mosaic, letter carving, steel welded artworks, wrought iron works, figurative sculpture, narrative sculpture, mythological sculpture, monumental sculpture, fountain sculpture, cast stone, cast aluminium, art consultancy, design installation, lighting, street furniture, bollards, art workshops, commissions undertaken, sculpture workshops, pattern making, lost wax casting, enlargement, mould making, architectural metalwork, paving design, stainless steel sculpture, obelisks, editions in bronze, unique castings, bronze plaques, civic sculpture, site specific artworks, concrete sculpture, entrance gates, community projects, residencies, fibreglass, Ayrshire artists, Scottish Sculpture, Marine art, bronze foundry, ceramic shell, Turnberry golf course, colossus, colossal sculpture, equestrian, animalier,a4a. In German- Bronzeskulptur, Öffentliche Kunstwerke, Backsteinrelief, Porträtskulptur, Architektonische Reliefkunst, Gartenstatuen, Terrakottaskulptur, Glasierter Backsteinfries, Steinmeißelarbeiten, Mosaik, Buchstabenmeißelarbeiten, Schmeideeisenkunst, Figurative Skulptur, Mythologische Skulptur, Monumentalskulptur, Brunnenskulptur, Kunststein, Gußaluminium, Kunstberatung, Installation von Kunstwerken,Beleuchtung, Straßeneinrichtungsgegemstände, Poller, Kunst-Workshops, Auftragsarbeiten, Bildhauer-Workahops, Modellerstellung, Wachsausschmelzguß, Vergrößerung, Formenerstellung, Architektonische Metallarbeiten, Pflasterbeläge, Edelstahlskulptur, Obelisken, Bronzegußeditionen, Einzelußarbeiten, In French Sculptures en bronze, Sculptures de lieu public, Sculptures de relief en brique, Portraits sculptés, Reliefs architecturaux, Statues de jardin, Sculptures en pierre, Mosaïques, Sculptures de lettress, Ouvrages en acier soudé, Ouvrages en fer forgé, Sculptures figuratives, Sculptures mythalogiques, Sculptures monumentales,Sculptures de fontaine, Pierre de béton, Aliminium fondu, Conseils artistiques, Installation d'oeuvres, Eclairage, Mobilier urban, Bornes, Ateliers d' art, Commandes acceptées, Ateliers de sculpture, Création de modéles de fonte, Piéces moulées a` la cire perdue, Agrandissements, Construction de moules, Objets métalliques architecturaux, Conception d'aires pavées, Sculptures en inox, Obélisques, Tirages en bronze, Moulages uniques, Plaques de bronze, Sculptures municipales, OEuvres d'art personnalisées Sculptures en béton, Portails d'entrée, Projets associatifs, Projets en internat, Fibre de verre

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The Malvern Stag at Bernerds Green, Malvern Worcestershire, cast in bronze as a relief emblem incorporated into signage as a collaborative project with Andrew Findlay - artist blacksmith.

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The Green Man bronze relief sculpture in Green Man Entry in Dudley. Bronze relief modelled by McKenna and assistant Darren Sutton for the Dudley Borough Public Art project ran by artist

Steve Field.

More examples to be found below

The Malvern Stag

This is a small 15" bronze relief patinated in various colours. The Stag against a pear tree is from the Malvern Hills District council coat of arms. John McKenna modelled this Stag emblem in clay and it was lost wax cast in bronze for Andrew Findlay.

The cast Stag was incorporated into a larger feature sign created by the artist blacksmith Andrew Findlay. The signage Andrew created were entrance features to the town of Bernards Green at Malvern Chase, in Worcestershire.

Andrew made many such features throughout the Malvern district. His iron and copperwork grace many stately homes and public spaces throughout the United Kingdom.

Work such as the bodice armour below are one of his many specialities. Examples of his work can be found on his website at

www.eastforge.freeserve.co.uk

The Green Man Sculpture relief for the Green Man Passage in Dudley.

Strange name for a town passge? What is this about?

Green Man entry is a very old passageway in Dudley may have been an entrance to a former ale house.

Cast Bronze verdigris patination. Cast at the Castle Fine Art Foundry.

Modellers John Mckenna and Darren Sutton

Commissioned for the town of Dudley in the west midlands by Steve Field of the Dudley Borough Public Art Unit.

Fosse Plaza, Fosse Way, Leicester

This project saw the creation of two bronze cast relief panels for a commercial trading estate, Fosse Plaza, in Leicester.

The concept designs were originally conceived by a working associate of John's. The Dudley borough public artist Steve Field.

Steve designed the layout of the roundel panels and provided John with reference drawings with which John could create the clay master originals.

These were then lost wax cast in bronze.

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The Fosse Plaza complex is close to the original site of the ancient Roman Fosse Way. The proximity to the site called for a Roman reference hence the Roman charioteer galloping down the Roman road.

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Shakespears' "King Lear"was thought to be a legendary king of the atrea around Leicester according to Steve's researches. John McKenna and his son, Alexander modelled the panel in clay. The scene was from the Shakespeare play King Lear, where the old King asks of his daughters' love.

His youngest daughter Cordelia states.

"I love your majesty, according to my bond, no more, no less"

The panel lost wax in bronze at Castle Fine Art foundry.

The bronze panel on site at Fosse Plaza, Fosse Way, Leicester. Approx 1m diameter.