03/07/2023
Know any boxing fans? -here’s a tip off as on the night, one of the pieces to be auctioned will be the echo of another already exhibited & valued at £25k So, with no lower limit -donated 💫🙏🏽by award winning modern artist Anthony David Padgett life size and sculptural could go for 🤷🏼♀️anything .. 💫⭐️whoever (Tyson Fury?! ) buys the other will want this !! (Anthony Joshua?!!)
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The fight everyone has been waiting for, between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, is to be staged at Morecambe Winter Gardens.
The World's first public sculpture of the "Gypsy King" Tyson Fury (2 time world Heavy Weight Boxing Champion) is to be pitted against the first public sculpture of "AJ" Anthony Joshua (2 time former unified world heavyweight champion) - both made out of drainpipes by artist Anthony Padgett - so it should be a "clean fight".
The 2 British fighters will be unveiled centre stage at the free entry Morecambe Bay Art Fair 1st - 2nd July,
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/morecambe-bay-art-fair-2023-tickets-562521596237
Tyson is planned to be installed at Morecambe and Anthony Joshua will be sold at the Sickle Cell Society charity auction in London.
Home House, 20 Portman Square, London, W1H 6LW
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sicklecellsocietyreversepsychologylondon/911436
Award winning artist Anthony said "The sculpture inspired by Tyson Fury needed a worthy opponent. Both depict the essence of the punch, the key moment in boxing. It is great to have a sculpture depicting Tyson's world achievement in Morecambe. Also to have a contemporary artwork shows Morecambe is progressive in its views of art. I hope both Tyson and Anthony like the work."
Contemporary art is different to traditional "life-like" sculptures. It uses everyday objects in new ways. Large sculptures made out of storm drain piping is a first that Padgett pioneered in 2020 and includes his sculpture of Pablo Picasso's Guernica dove sited in Southampton to mark the arrival of 4000 Spanish Child Refugees in 1937.
Anthony's traditional "life-like" sculptures, including of war poet Wilfred Owen, Pablo Picasso and artist Vincent Van Gogh, are sited around the UK and in Europe.
Anthony, who is from Morecambe, said he is also in the ring as a contender to do a life-like sculpture of Tyson in bronze. Anthony added that he hoped boxing promoters Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn like the work.
You can see the sculptures at the Morecambe Bay Art Fair 2023.
You can also view them in 360 Virtual Reality - follow this link
https://youtu.be/GFWBFv_qmX0
Photographs by Anthony D Padgett 2023 (permission given for press to use copyright free) - higher resolution are available on request
Sculptor Anthony D Padgett with Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua at Morecambe Bay.