Studio Response www.studio-response.com Betty Campbell Statue, Cardiff City Centre. Maintenance Plan. For and on behalf of Rightacres Properties and Monumental Welsh Women - July 2021 1 Studio Response www.studio-response.com Betty Campbell Statue - Maintenance Plan. Contents 1. Background 1.1. Project team directory 2. Betty Campbell Statue 2.1. Statue location 2.2. Statue dimensions 2.3. Statue foundations 2.4. Material - bronze outdoors 2.5 Granite plinth and floor plaque 3. Maintenance and ownership 4. Maintenance schedule 4.1. Decommissioning Front cover image: Clay sculpture of Betty Campbell by Eve Shepherd. 02 Studio Response www.studio-response.com 1. Background The statue of Wales’ first black headteacher Statues are very much in the news at the moment. Betty Campbell is to be unveiled on September The Black Lives Matter movement has served 29th in front of the new HMRC building at 6 to highlight the lack of diversity in our public Central Square with thanks to Monumental Welsh monuments - something Monumental Welsh Women, Righacres Properties and many others Women has been trying to put right for several who financially contributed to the statue and who years. The Monumental Welsh Women and their continue to provide in-kind services to realise supporters were delighted when the public the ambitious, in scale and construct, statue by vote for the first historical Welsh woman to be internationally renowned sculptor Eve Shepherd. commemorated - and celebrated - with a statue, resulted in Betty Campbell, Wales’ first black Betty Campbell’s statue is the first in a series headteacher and community activist receiving five of permanently sited figurative sculptures a huge number of public votes. Now, her statue championed by a collective of Welsh journalists, is under construction and will be unveiled academics and businesswomen who are working Wednesday 29th September 2021 - not just the with Cardiff based public art consultants Studio first Welsh woman to be celebrated, but the first Response, under the banner of Monumental Welsh black woman. Welsh Women (MWW). Their aim is to celebrate the achievements of significant female figures Why do Monumental Welsh Women think statues in Wales’ history inspired by the fact that in are important? In her recent book, Invisible Women, Wales, there is not one single public statue Caroline Criado Perez said, ‘I wasn’t being shown commemorating the achievements of real Welsh women I could look up to …I wasn’t being taught Women. Welsh girls can’t always see what they about female politicians, female activists, female could be, who to be inspired by and in the spirit of writers, artists, lawyers, CEOs. All the people I diversity and equality their aim is level this some was taught to admire were men, and so in my way through commemorating Welsh women’s head power, influence and ambition equated with achievement. maleness.’ Monumental Welsh Women’s mission is to normalise female ambition and success by celebrating and commemorating the achievements of great Welsh Women and inspiring the next generation of great Welsh women. 5 statues - 5 Women - 5 years. 03 Studio Response www.studio-response.com 1.1. Project team directory Client / owners – Rightacres Properties Statue fabricators – Castle Fine Art Foundry Jason Hyatt Chris Weston, Rightacres Properties Castle Fine Art Foundry 8th Floor, One Central Square LLanrhaeadr Ym Mochnant, Cardiff, CF10 1FS Nr Oswestry Email: [email protected] Powys, SY10 0AA www.rightacres.co.uk Email: [email protected] www.bronzefoundry.co.uk Client and Commissioner – Monumental Welsh Women Plinth and floor plaque fabricators Helen Molyneux Murielle Jayer Monumental Welsh Women Ltd, IP Services Unit 7, Neptune Court Logistic North, Unit F2-A, Cardiff, CF24 5PJ. Salford Road Email: [email protected] Bolton, BL5 1DB www.monumentalwelshwomen.com Email: E: [email protected] www.ipsurfaces.co.uk Sculptor – Eve Shepherd Eve Shepherd 46 Downland Road Woodingdean Brighton, BN2 6DJ Email: [email protected] www.eveshepherd.com Art Consultants – Studio Response Emma Price and Jo Breckon Studio Response 23 Holgate Close Above: Betty Campbell maquettes . Cardiff, CF5 2PE Email: [email protected] www.studio-response.com 04 Studio Response www.studio-response.com 2. Betty Campbell Statue Opposite is the sculptor Eve Shepherd picture with the original armature sculpture. The positive original (in sections) has already had silicone rubber mould is made over the it to create an exact negative of the mould held in the shape by fibreglass outer cases. Following this molten wax is poured into and out of the mould, and the remaining skin allowed to cool; this forms a hollow wax positive. There are a number of seam lines and parts to the sculpture where the mould sections fitted together are then worked out and the sculpture cut up into castable sections. The wax is then coated inside and out with liquid ceramic and grit, built up in layers to form a strong heat-resistant investment around the wax. This is then baked upside down in an oven, allowing the wax to be burnt out – hence the term ‘lost wax’. The negative spaces formerly occupied by the wax is at present being filled with molten bronze poured in at 1200ºC into the pre-heated ceramic investment. When the bronze has cooled, the ceramic shell will be removed, which in itself is arduous task followed by an acid, which further breaks down the ceramic. As the bronze has been cast in several pieces (the children, chair, books and Betty’s glasses Above: Betty Campbell clay armature, to scale. etc), will be welded together and chased. This is a highly skilled process recreating any surface detail. Following this the sculpture will be ready to be heated up and applied with a wide range of chemicals, which form the finished patina. 05 Studio Response www.studio-response.com 2.1. Statue location The Betty Campbell statue will be sited in front of the new HMRC building at 6 Central Square, Cardiff. Below is a plan of the exact location and accompanying photographs. 06 notes: Do not scale from drawings. All discrepancies to be reported to Gensler architect immediately. All dimensions to be verified by contractor on site prior to any works LANDSCAPE GENERAL NOTES PHASE 1 SITE BOUNDARY Hard Landscape NATURAL STONE PAVING PALETTE A (20-15-90/135 'Palette A') Approx. 440x590x55mm NATURAL STONE PAVING PALETTE B (20-15-90/135 'Palette B') Approx. 440x590x55mm 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 SELF BINDING GRAVEL SURFACE (20-15-85/145) AREA OF TACTILE PAVING FOR PEDESTRIAN CROSSING POINTS. MH LP(EXISTING) G G G G Road sign INDICATIVE LOCATION OF PRECAST CONCRETE SC FHFH LP(EXISTING RELOCATED) LP(EXISTING) SC SC FLUSH ROAD KERB. SC MH SC SC SC TO ENGINEER'S SPECIFICATION. SC SC SC CB PRECAST CONCRETE RAISED ROAD KERB TO ENGINEER'S SPECIFICATION. A NATURAL STONE BLOCK EDGING Studio Response www.studio-response.comRoad sign IN PEDESTRIAN AREA. B (20-15-90/135 Type C) 1 PAS68 CONCRETE BLOCK A Road sign C G (35-35-30/130 A) F A LP(EXISTING) 900 x 1490mm block L L 1 C : 2 2 PAS68 CONCRETE BLOCKS WITH TIMBER 7 MH SLATS (35-35-30/130 A, B & C) 900 x 1490mm block B / 900 x 3600mm block C/ C 900 x 3600mm timber slats 3 on 900 x 7000mm block D C TREE GRILLE AND ACCESSORIES TREE GUYING SYSTEM, 4 C MH AERATION AND ROOT CELLS FE (40-35-00/170) TREES: FE 5 Quercus palustris (Pin Oak), EXISTING STOPBUS Girth: 60-70cm, Height: 550-600cm GL-01 D FE C 6 WL PF-01 PL-07 PL-06 PL-05 FL-01 C FE WL E C LP(PROPOSED) FE A PL-04 PL-03 PL-02 PL-01 C FE A B F B B G LP(EXISTING) G A A A H A G MH X1 B C01 23.07.2018 ISSUED FOR PLANNING YT AC FH MH CONDITION 11 SC B INDICATIVE PLOT 5 rev date revision note drawn checked MH B consultant LANDSCAPE PROPOSAL MH Y1 SC SC A MH MH MH INDICATIVE PLOT 5 G MH SC SC SC SC SC SC LP(PROPOSED) SC SC SC LP(PROPOSED) SC A BUILDING OUTLINE SC AAAAAA CB SC SC HAVELOCK STREET lead consultant Mkr. MH G FH PAVILION SC PHASE 1 BOUNDARY Thomas More Square Tel +44 (0)20 7073 9600 London, E1W 1YW Fax +44 (0)20 7539 1917 PHONE BOX United Kingdom INDICATIVE LOCATION OF ARTWORK DETAIL TO BE PROVIDED CB MH CB client CB MH CB CB Rightacres Property Company LTD. EXISTING PEDESTRIAN CROSSING 8th Floor LP(PROPOSED) CB One Central Square Cardiff UL UL LP(EXISTING) SC SC Post SC SC key plan SC SC SC Road sign Traffic Light LP(EXISTING) Road sign SC N G G EXISTING ROAD SIGN PLOT 6 & 7 WOOD STREET EXISTING BUS STOPS category 1 GENERAL ARRANGEMENT family 600-699 PLANS title LANDSCAPE HARDWORKS Betty Campbell PLAN_PHASE 1 AND PHASE 2 Statue location. project GPU CENTRAL SQUARE CARDIFF project number drawn checked 08.7186.002 Author Checker scale date rev As indicated@A0 07/17/18 C01 project code origin vol/syslvl/loc type role number 07 007243 - GEN - 03 -GF - DR - L-1611 © 2017 Gensler All rights reserved, including but not limited to The Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 Studio Response www.studio-response.com 2.2. Statue materials and dimensions Weight – 2.6 tonne bronze cast Height of bronze sculpture – 4m (including 400mm plinth height) The plinth 2.2m square 2.3. Statue foundations The foundations to which will receive Betty Campbell Statue have been designs in consultation with Arup (Cardiff officer) and the concetre pinth which will be clad with black granite has been designed and implemented with John A Evans, Jaylae consulting LLP.