Renowned Hull artist's legacy is set in stone

QUEENS GARDENS TRIBUTE TO ART SCHOOL TUTOR

- By MARK PAGE

A NEW stone relief panel has been fitted in Queens Gardens honouring a renowned Hull artist.

It completes a historic series of artworks originally commissioned in 1961.

The panel, a replica of a lost piece by the late Hull School of Art tutor Kenneth Carter, has been painstakingly reproduced by a skilled stonemason from LCC Restorations.

Created from Stonehills Whitbed Portland Limestone, the panel took five weeks to finish using traditional carving techniques.

Measuring roughly one metre by three metres, it now sits alongside two original panels on the eastern boundary wall near Wilberforce Drive.

The restoration was ordered as part of the ongoing revamp of Queens Gardens.

The missing panel is one of six sculptural reliefs originally designed by Mr Carter as part of Sir Frederick Gibberd's 1961 Masterplan for the Gardens. Until now, only five of the six panels remained in place.

Mr Carter envisaged these panels as abstract representations inspired by oceanic forms - pebbles, shells, and marine bony structures, drawing on Hull's maritime history, as Queens Gardens once stood as the largest dock in the UK, then known as Queens Dock.