HAZEL REEVES

Award-winning sculptor Hazel Reeves has a passion for telling stories in bronze about struggles for social justice and redressing the lack of women represented, one statue at a time. Each statue serves as a catalyst for change. Hazel's life-long activism weaves its way through her artistic practice, with the hope of engaging people to challenge inequality, discrimination, and stereotypes. She is best known for her large bronze sculptures on the streets, including the iconic statue of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter's Square, Manchester, which won the Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture in 2021.

Reeves' fascination with dance is incorporated within her work, as she collaborates with dancers to choreograph and produce sculptures that recreate both the fragility and joy of dance. Her latest project, Sculptural Murmurings, brings her sculptural eye to dance and movement, drawing on her field recordings of the natural soundscapes from the renowned Knepp rewilding project, where her studio is based. Working with improvising dancers of different ages and physicalities, both professional and amateur, she challenges ideas of who can dance and who can perform.

Hazel is a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS), the Society of Women Artists, and the Wildlife Sound Recording Society.