TRIBUTE: Sculptor Anthony Padgett has created heads to celebrate the life of his great-great uncle, Bradford-born poet, Anthony Padgett. The bronze sculpture will go on display in Bradford.
AN EXHIBITION of a series of sculptures of a life of a Bradford-born First World War poet have gone on display.
Humbert Wolfe, worked as a Whitehall civil servant in the 1920s and 1930s. His 1916 poem, Requiem: The Soldier, is read at Remembrance services each year. To mark the 135th and 75th anniversary of his birth and death, Wolfe’s great-great nephew, award-winning sculptor Anthony Padgett has created five different sculpture heads to reflect the many areas of Wolfe’s life and work. They are on display at Westminster Reference Library in London.
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