our goal
We are raising £92,000 to raise a statue to the fallen soldier, absorbing artist Isaac Rosenberg.
Donation can be made by post, with cheques made payable to Jeecs-Rosenberg Statue appeal (c/o Clive Bettington, P.O. Box 57317, London E1 3WG)
Donation can be made by post, with cheques made payable to Jeecs-Rosenberg Statue appeal (c/o Clive Bettington, P.O. Box 57317, London E1 3WG)
about the statue
"...A handsome figurative work in bronze, showing Rosenberg in his greatcoat, with a volume of poetry in one hand and a cane in the other. The statue lends him a little of the dash, verve and dignity that was denied him during his lifetime..."
The statue will stand in London's Torrington Square, on the Birkbeck College campus and near the Slade School of Fine Art: the two great learning centres of Rosenberg's life.
The statue will stand in London's Torrington Square, on the Birkbeck College campus and near the Slade School of Fine Art: the two great learning centres of Rosenberg's life.
About the committee
Clive Bettington is a retired solicitor born in South Africa.
He is the chairman/founder of the Jewish East End Celebration Society founded to save what remains iof the rich Jewish heritage of the East End of London.He is a registered London tour guide. Elaine Feinstein MA(cantab), Hon D.Lit., FRSL. is a prize-winning author who has worked as a poet, novelist, biographer, translator and playwright. Her most recent publication is It Goes with the Territory: Memoirs of a Poet.
Miriam Halahmy is an author and a poet. She has been on the Rosenberg Committee since September 2013 and helps to raise the profile of the committee's work on social media.
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Cecil Woolf promised Rosenberg's sister, Annie, to continue promoting Rosenberg's works. He has so far published four books on Rosenberg at his small independent publishing house, Cecil Woolf Publishers, which carries on the tradition of his uncle and aunt, Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Cecil is also an editor and bibliographer.
Deborah Maccoby's literary biography of Isaac Rosenberg: "God Made Blind: Isaac Rosenberg: his life and poetry" was published in 2000. She has been on the Rosenberg Statue Committee since 2011.
is... Sarah Kessler is a journalist working in global health.
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Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a leading authority on 1st World War Poets, including Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Hamilton Sorley and Edward Thomas Her Isaac Rosenberg: the Making of a Great War Poet was published in 2008 to great acclaim. |
about the sculptor
Etienne Millner, a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, and President of the Society of Portrait Sculptors. A figurative sculptor who has worked from his studio in south London for over 20 years, he studied at Goldsmiths College and the Royal Academy Schools. His work is made in clay or plaster and cast into bronze.
Etienne's commissions are wide-ranging and have included monumental portraiture, figure groups and busts of politicians, writers and musicians. His subjects include Sir Lennox Berkeley, Lord and Lady Harris of Peckham, Lord Allenby, Arsène Wenger, Toyah Wilcox and Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck.
Etienne's commissions are wide-ranging and have included monumental portraiture, figure groups and busts of politicians, writers and musicians. His subjects include Sir Lennox Berkeley, Lord and Lady Harris of Peckham, Lord Allenby, Arsène Wenger, Toyah Wilcox and Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck.