Tim Tolkien

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Tim Tolkien
File:Sentinel sculpture TimTolkien.jpg
Sentinel near the Jaguar works in Castle Bromwich, formerly the Castle Bromwich Assembly Spitfire factory
BornOctober 1962 (age 63)
Known forSculpture
Notable workSentinel

Tim Tolkien (born October 1962) is an English sculptor who has designed several monumental sculptures, including the award-winning Sentinel.

He has a metal sculpture and public Art business at Cradley Heath, West Midlands. He is also a bass player and member of the band Klangstorm, founded in 1996.

Early life

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Tim is the great-nephew of the writer J. R. R. Tolkien. He was raised in the village of Hughenden Valley and went to the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. He graduated with a degree in fine art (sculpture) from the University of Reading in 1984.

Works

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Sentinel

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Sentinel is Tolkien's most famous work to date. In 1996, he was appointed by CAN[1] who were awarded the contract to develop public art proposals for the estate using National Lottery money, as an artist in residence to help with regeneration of the Castle Vale estate in Birmingham. The following year, he consulted with residents about an art project for the entrance to the estate. They favoured a sculpture featuring Spitfires, reflecting the area's flying history and particularly the Castle Bromwich Assembly which stood nearby. The large steel and aluminium Sentinel Spitfire sculpture was the result, showing three Spitfires peeling off up into the air in different directions. It was unveiled on 14 November 2000, near the former factory which built them, by their former test pilot Alex Henshaw.

Cedric Hardwicke

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Tolkien also sculpted a memorial to the actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke, at the latter's birthplace of Lye, West Midlands, for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. The memorial takes the form of a giant filmstrip, the illuminated cut metal panels illustrating scenes from some of Sir Cedric's best-known roles, which include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Shape of Things to Come, and The Ghost of Frankenstein. It was unveiled in November 2005.

Ent

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His proposals for a 20-foot (6.1 meter) high statue of Treebeard, an Ent from The Lord of the Rings, to be erected on the Green at Moseley, near J. R. R. Tolkien's childhood home in Birmingham, have met with some controversy, but permission for its erection – originally scheduled for May 2007 – was granted by Birmingham City Council.[2][3]

Catalogue

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Work
  • Location
  • (Birmingham unless stated)
 Date Picture
  • Coordinates
  • (With links to map and aerial photo sources)
 Notes
James Watt's Mad Machine Winson Green Metro station 1998 (1998) File:James Watt's Mad Machine - Winson Green Outer Circle Tram Stop (48800549752).jpg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Supported by Eric Klein Velderman, Paula Woof and local school pupils.[4]
Lanchester Car Monument Nechells 1995 (1995) File:Lanchester car sculpture.jpg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. On the site of the development of the first British petrol-engined car[5]
Mosaics Menzies High School, Sandwell With Eric Klein Velderman and pupils.[6]
Millennium Sculpture St.Nicholas School, Kenilworth 2001 (2001) With pupils[7]
Dragonfly sculpture Hembrook Infants and Junior school, Warwickshire May 2003 (2003-05) With Emma Dicks[8]
Gateway Belle Vue Primary School, Stourbridge [9]
Archway Springhallow School, Ealing With pupils.[10]
Memorial to Sir Cedric Hardwicke Lye, West Midlands November 2005 (2005-11) File:Sir Cedric Hardwicke sculpture - Dudley Road, Lye (38803701042).jpg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Bluebell Sot's Hole Local Nature Reserve, West Bromwich 2008 (2008) File:Tim Tokien - Sot's Hole Bluebell - 01.jpeg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. [11]
Gate Sot's Hole Local Nature Reserve, West Bromwich 2008 (2008) File:Tim Tolkien, Sot's Hole gate - 2013-05-20 - Andy Mabbett - 01.jpg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. [11]
Gates RSPB Sandwell Valley File:RSPB Reserve Gates 1.jpg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Sentinel Castle Bromwich 14 November 2000 (2000-11-14) File:Sentinel sculpture TimTolkien 05.jpg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Cardinal Newman statue Birmingham Newman University 2010 (2010) File:Newman Statue021.jpg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Was at Cofton Park on 19 September 2010 for Pope Benedict XVI to beatify Cardinal Newman.[12] Now located at Birmingham Newman University in the Ryland Quad of the campus.
Gate Holly Wood Local Nature Reserve, Sandwell 2012 (2012) File:Holly Wood Nature Reserve gate - 02.JPG Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. [13]
Roots and Branches Handsworth Park 2020 (2020) File:Roots and Branches sculpture at Handsworth Park (51490613909).jpg Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. With Graham Jones. Four trees with extended roots on the ground in steel which can be used as seats.[14]
Here and Now Bench Handsworth Park August 2023 (2023-08) Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. Was inspired by a fairground waltzer car. Was commissioned to mark Birmingham hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[15]
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Tolkien also undertook the redesign of Lea Hall railway station, Birmingham, with Eric Klein Velderman; completed in 1998)[16]

Other notable work

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He has also worked with the singer and television presenter Toyah Willcox, designing her armour-like stage costumes and, in 2005, making a documentary film for BBC2, comparing New Zealand's successful exploitation of its movie-related J. R. R. Tolkien associations, with that of J.R.R.'s (and Toyah's) home town, Birmingham.

References

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