{"id":65124,"date":"2025-05-01T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=65124"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:21:37","slug":"david-mayne-returns-to-sheffield-with-cupola-gallery-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/david-mayne-returns-to-sheffield-with-cupola-gallery-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mayne returns to Sheffield with Cupola Gallery Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Mayne, the artist behind the steel bear in Sheffield&#8217;s Botanical Gardens, has returned to the city for his first exhibition in nine years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The showcase includes works to represent Mayne&#8217;s evolution as an artist, as well as paying tribute to the &#8216;steel city&#8217; where he lived from 1983 to 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Sherwood, the founder and director of Cupola Gallery said: &#8220;His whole body of work represents his love of Yorkshire, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about our connection with nature, that mix of Sheffield\u2019s heritage with the steel and the green spaces, is quite a nice thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composed largely of steel and wood, the exhibition focuses on the close-ties between the natural and the man-made, with statues of cyclists, runners and climbers as well as Yorkshire wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition will run from the 26th April until the 31st May, with kids and dogs welcome to visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Mayne returns to Sheffield with Cupola Gallery Exhibition\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQMfbqSzXl4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Mayne has returned to Sheffield with his first exhibition in nine years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":727,"featured_media":65147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,21,103],"tags":[234,1812,1811,38,131],"class_list":["post-65124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news","category-watch","tag-art","tag-cupola","tag-david-mayne","tag-sheffield","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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