Mark Renn

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rdf:langString an apparent dome

rdf:langString there separate columns, each arched at the top

rdf:langString Clockwork

rdf:langString Moontrap

rdf:langString Darwin Gate, Shrewsbury

rdf:langString Talking about the Weather

rdf:langString Charm Bracelet Pavement Trail

rdf:langString Lost Property Sun

rdf:langString Whistle Blizzard

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rdf:langString Viewed from a certain angle the curves of the three separate columns of The Darwin Gate appear to form a dome, based on a Saxon helmet. It was inspired by St Mary's Church in Shrewsbury and commemorates Charles Darwin.

rdf:langString Darwin memorial in Shrewsbury .jpg

rdf:langString Sculpture in Shrewsbury .jpg

rdf:langString Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham

rdf:langString Sanders Park, Bromsgrove

rdf:langString Newtown Swimming Pool & Fitness Centre, High Street, Newtown

rdf:langString Bell Street Passage, Birmingham

rdf:langString Field Lane, Bartley Green opposite Romsley Road

rdf:langString Newhall Hill – Jewellery Quarter

rdf:langString Victoria Street, Bordesley Green

rdf:langString Corner of High Street and Burlington Street in Newtown

rdf:langString Wolverhampton Swimming & Fitness Centre, Planetary Road, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton

rdf:langString Castle Grange business park, Nottinghamshire

rdf:langString Cork Airport, Ireland

rdf:langString Heathfield Road, Handsworth, Birmingham

rdf:langString Jubilee House, High Street, Madeley

rdf:langString Morrisons Supermarket, Small Heath, Birmingham

rdf:langString Selby War Memorial hospital, Yorkshire

rdf:langString outside Jewellery Quarter station, Birmingham

rdf:langString South Wales Police headquarters, Bute Town, Cardiff

rdf:langString Bronze

rdf:langString Stainless steel

rdf:langString Steel

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rdf:langString bronze

rdf:langString copper

rdf:langString stone

rdf:langString stainless steel

rdf:langString Cast glass

rdf:langString LED lighting

rdf:langString fibreglass

rdf:langString Pre-existing ceramic tiles, etched by sandblasting

rdf:langString marine plywood

rdf:langString mild steel

rdf:langString printed vinyl, glued onto steel plates

rdf:langString series of sixteen pavement plaques, depicting aspects of local history

rdf:langString Commemorates BSA.

rdf:langString Depends on parallax

rdf:langString Depends on parallax Illuminated at night.

rdf:langString Depends on parallax.

rdf:langString Depicts the workings of a pocket watch.

rdf:langString Illuminated at night.

rdf:langString Depicts umbrellas; located indoors, on mezzanine level.

rdf:langString refers to Copernicus

rdf:langString Made by the West Midlands Public Art Collective; commissioned by the then West Midlands County Council; lost

rdf:langString designed by Renn and Lee Valentine, in collaboration with year 9 students at Turves Green Girls' School

rdf:langString Depicts whistles; located indoors, on mezzanine level.

rdf:langString Set of three murals, depicting African wildlife. Since overpainted.

rdf:langString DC Leisure Management Ltd.

rdf:langString Madeley Town Council

rdf:langString Morrisons Supermarkets

rdf:langString Pegasus

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rdf:langString Clockwork

rdf:langString Gold Star

rdf:langString Juggernaut

rdf:langString City of a Thousand Trades

rdf:langString Padlock

rdf:langString Clink

rdf:langString Moontrap

rdf:langString Shoal

rdf:langString An even bigger splash!

rdf:langString Green Man Walking

rdf:langString Mondobongo

rdf:langString Night Swimmer

rdf:langString Talking about the Weather

rdf:langString Bat wall

rdf:langString Blue Beacon

rdf:langString Charm Bracelet Pavement Trail

rdf:langString Handsworth Triptych

rdf:langString Lost Property Sun

rdf:langString The Copernican Gate

rdf:langString The Darwin Gate

rdf:langString The Selby Medal

rdf:langString Whistle Blizzard

rdf:langString Sculpture

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rdf:langString mural

rdf:langString Public transport interchange

rdf:langString Weather vane

rdf:langString Mark Dennis Tate Renn (1952–2019) was a British sculptor who created several works of public art, mainly in the English Midlands. Renn was born in 1952 and trained in Birmingham. Although primarily known for his sculpture, his first commission, in 1978, was a series of three murals on the gable ends of terraced houses at the eastern end of Heathfield Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, in conjunction with Paula Woof and Steve Field. These murals lasted around 27 years before being overpainted by new murals. In 1982, he painted an internal mural at Frankley Community School, together with Woof and Field. The trio worked as "The Mural Company" and were profiled in a 1982 Central Television documentary, "Round About". In June–July 1984, Field and Renn exhibited on murals, jointly, at Bilston Museum and Art Gallery. He also spent the early part of his career working on live art events and temporary installations. He was a member of the art groups "BAG" (1974–1977 with Paula Woof and Ian Everard), "Meet the Future" and "Fine Rats International" (1989–1993); he described the latter as "an edgy group of four egomaniac visual artists". His The Fall involved fully-glazed greenhouses being dropped from cranes, underneath Gravelly Hill Interchange ("Spaghetti Junction"), with the timing decided by games of bingo. Renn, Woof, Field, and worked jointly as the West Midlands Public Art Collective, which was active circa 1987. Several of sculptural his works play with parallax, appearing abstract until viewed from a specific angle. One such sculpture is The Darwin Gate in Shrewsbury, which from a certain angle appears to form a dome, according to Historic England, in "the form of a Saxon helmet with a Norman window... inspired by features of St Mary's Church which was attended by Charles Darwin as a boy". Other examples include Pegasus (1999) at Cork Airport, Ireland, Green Man Walking (2003) at Sanders Park, Bromsgrove, and The Selby Medal (2012) at Selby War Memorial Hospital, Yorkshire. His other public works include Clink at Stourbridge Junction railway station, Shoal (2008), on the Castle Grange Business Park, Nottinghamshire, Blue Beacon (2009) at the South Wales Police headquarters in Bute Town, Cardiff, Clockwork, outside Jewellery Quarter station, Birmingham, Moontrap at Smethwick Galton Bridge interchange, and "Lost Property Sun" (2010) at Birmingham Snow Hill station. He collaborated with Mick Thacker on several sculptures, as well as the "Charm Bracelet Pavement Trail", a series of sixteen pavement plaques depicting the local history of the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham. The duo also oversaw artworks added during the 1997 restoration of Jubilee House, High Street, Madeley, as well as contributing a weather vane and a sculpture. Plans for a Renn-Thacker collaborative sculpture at the junction of the A41 road and the M53 motorway in The Wirral had to be abandoned after the Highways Agency determined that it could cause distraction to drivers and attract pedestrians onto the roadway. The design had earlier caused controversy due to an inadvertent similarity to To The Skellig, a sculpture in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland. Renn worked from a studio in Lee Bank, Birmingham and after that was closed following local government funding cuts, from a studio at his home in Cookley, Worcestershire. As a side-line, he operated a business, "Big Pan Man", renting out commercial catering equipment. He died in late 2019, and was survived by his wife, Anna.

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