Eleanor Crook

Investigating some fusion art while my friend sends me sculpture photos back from Calcutta

That’s the next tattoo sorted.

Indeed, words to live by

Front cover of David Keenan’s book Boyhood. Boy blowing bubblegum and smiling into the camera

David Keenan’s new book ‘Boyhood’ is astonishingly good and I’m VERY excited to be in conversation with him on Monday 13 April at Liverpool Waterstones. Come!
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My loaf, malt & white flour , just wafting out of the kitchen. Small pleasures

A beautifully cased holy nail

Plate (page 25) from Meidosems Lithograph- of 2 fantastical forms evolved from obscurity

Henri Michaux, 1948

Book cover of Spontaneous Objects by Rebecca Zorach, showing ammonite fossils (spiral shells) in different colors on a pink background

And...it's here! Thanks @psupress.bsky.social

Brilliant

Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton goes on public display for first time — The Guardian Hundreds of thousands of visitors expected for month-long display of 13th-century saint’s remains

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A small #sculpture mould is poured. This is the busiest ex ice cream tub in Berkshire.

Drop a crush from your youth

No rest for the wicked. Today I have to make moulds #sculpture so down to the shed, out with the gear

A bronze statue on top of a tall black marble base. Hamlet is seated, looking down miserably while clutching a dagger. Touchstone (the jester from As You Like It) is sitting at his feet leaning back and laughing while holding onto a jester's scepter with Punch at the top of it and ribbons hanging off of it. Here are tragedy & comedy. On the base is a gilded inscription: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS BTW, the sculptor was the father of the more currently famous sculptor Alexander Calder.

Shakespeare Memorial, Philadelphia - Alexander Stirling Calder, 1928

Having a lie-in at St Denis

Today I sculpted for an hour at the foundry, while chatting with my foundry mates about jury service. After an hour the sculpt was finished and I realised I’d sculpted it while thinking about other things entirely. So who sculpted it? It looks ok, I promise. Can’t show you yet ,here’s the tools

One of my three Fates in bronze, don’t cross her…. #sculpture

Reading in here about Brian Catling , Vernon Watkins, Ceri Richards. Poets and a furious attempt to bring them back from death through place.

The sorrows of the bronze Werther

A bright moment between downpours in Salisbury today. Notice the sculpture at the top presented in a niche like a relic in a setting

Sending warmest wishes x

Bernini and the pope who promoted him celebrated as Vatican marks 400 years of St. Peter's Basilica A new exhibition in Rome is celebrating one of the most important patron-artist relationships in European history.

“Bernini and the Barberini,” which explores the complex relationship between Gianlorenzo Bernini and his most important patron Pope Urban VIII, opened today at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome

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Busy at the bronze foundry most days at the mo. Can’t show you the work but here is the kit

At an auction to benefit Resonance FM the radio channel in London, because a good friend has his show on there each week. So a good cause , but I wish I’d still got it.

That miniature waxwork of Frank Zappa I made a few years ago. Sold it, wish I’d kept it

Semafor: Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan. When former US President Jimmy Carter founded an eradication program in the mid-1980s, there were millions of infections in developing countries and the only human disease that had ever previously been permanently defeated was smallpox. The parasitic infection, transmitted via contaminated water, leads to three-foot worms emerging from painful leg ulcers, and causes long-term incapacitation and disability. While Carter did not, as he hoped, outlive the last Guinea worm (he died in 2024), he may have come close; the 10 cases mark a 33% decrease year-on-year.

Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year.

It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.

Fantastic news! So pleased to hear that. I was on the register for decades until I became too old but never got the call. I was always a bit disappointed not to be a donor.

Medieval finds and shadow at the Andover museum. I do love a Bartmannskrug ( bearded man jug)

A wax model of an enlarged heart with the front portion removed to show the interior anatomy

This is a wax model made in 19thC Brussels showing an enlarged heart. Also known as cardiomegaly, it can be caused by a variety of conditions such as high blood pressure, cardiomyopathy, heart valves problems, or blocked coronary arteries - basically, anything that makes the heart work harder.

The head and shoulders of a marble skeleton with marble drapery behind.

A view from behind the marble skeleton looking up to an angel towering above him.

I always love a marble skeleton and this is one of my favourites. He’s in Sherborne, Gloucestershire. The monument dates to 1791, and is for James Lennox Dutton Esq. and his wife Jane. It depicts an angel trampling Death, and the sculptor was Richard Westmacott the Elder