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  • Rust: The Art Gallery - new book now published.
  • My reminder of Johnson's inept and bungling Covid 19 response.
  • P G Wodehouse memorial stone
  • Pipe shades by Stephen Raw
  • Was it for this the clay grew tall?
  • Wall design for Aquinas College by Stephen Raw
  • Hospice art
  • Rust: The Art Gallery's book and catalogue

    'Where Ferrous Metal Meets Air and Water' - Stephen's book of rust photographs - is now published in association with Carcanet Press. It can be bought through...
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  • PG Wodehouse memorial stone in Westminster Abbey

    Stephen has designed the new Westminster Abbey memorial to P G Wodehouse.
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  • Recent coin designs for the Royal Mint

    The 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth is commemorated in
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  • manchester cathedral

    Respect for our neighbours

    Manchester’s response to the atrocity of the Arena bomb was not to become a divided city with neighbour set against neighbour. 
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  • New pipe organ dedicated

    Manchester Cathedral's brand new pipe organ has now been finished and dedicated. The pipe shades for both east and west sides were designed by Stephen.
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  • ‘Rings’ prints still available

    'Rings' written by the previous Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, celebrates the 'unbreakable relationship between love and poetry'.
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  • Wilfred Owen War poetry

    Was it for this the clay grew tall?

    Wilfred Owen's poetry, used by Britten in his choral masterpiece 'War Requiem' (which challenges the assumptions, waste and futility of war) inspired Raw to...
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  • British Library buys Tolkien maps

    The British Library in London and The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester have recently bought sets of Stephen's 'The Lord of the Rings' maps he...
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  • song of songs print

    Song of Songs silk screen print

    ‘Song of Songs’ is a large silk-screen print using words from the King James Bible. It was printed by Kip Gresham in his Print Studio.
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  • Poetry for the Palace, Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh

    Poetry for the Palace Exhibition

    'This exhibition bursts into colour and physical form in the work of textual artist Stephen Raw and Duffy’s poems . . .
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  • 'Ritual Lighting'

    A new book of Laureate Poems by Carol Ann Duffy – each poem illuminated by Stephen – has now been published by Picador, titled 'Ritual Lighting'.
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  • Royal Ballet stone for the Abbey

    Now installed in Westminster Abbey, Stephen's design for the stone commemorating the four founders of the Royal Ballet is to be found near Poets' Corner.
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  • Video link to Royal Shakespeare Company site

    Royal Shakespeare Company DVD

    A sonnet, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, was written by Carol Ann Duffy and painted by Stephen Raw on seven large panels.
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  • Making Language Visible DVD

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  • stephen raw's mural

    'All Shall Be Well' mural

    Stephen's design for sixth-form Aquinas College in Stockport, Cheshire has been unveiled at the opening of the new £40m building.
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  • St Ann's hospice mural

    The concept of the St Ann’s mural was to harvest or ‘garner’ the language of people’s experience of the hospice.
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  • stephen raw's medal using carol ann duffy's poem 'Hour'

    Carol Ann Duffy poetry cast in bronze!

    Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,
    bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.
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  • DVD of Japanese hospital painting

    This short DVD describes how Stephen created a large painting for a hospital in Japan. It's about 'memory-words' for older patients, some with amnesia.
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  • The ‘Manchester Peace Park’

    In 2009 a Peace banner was unveiled during the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Manchester Peace Park in Podujevë, Kosovo.
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  • 'The Bees' print with Carol Ann Duffy

    For the launch of Carol Ann Duffy's collection 'The Bees' (Picador), Stephen made a colour print of his artwork which appears in black and white in the book.
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  • jan sutch pickard and the robert burns banner in edinburgh

    Robert Burns 250th anniversary

    Stephen and the Scottish Poetry Library invited all who love Robert Burns poetry to paint a letter which appeared in the giant 'BurnsBanner'.
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  • The Manchester Carols prints

    The Manchester Carols, words by Carol Ann Duffy, have now been published by Faber Music and the CD is available from Naxos.
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  • Medal design for The British Academy

    Stephen has designed The British Academy President's Medal - awarded for signal service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences.
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  • Lichfield Festival Banner

    To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Lichfield Festival, the textual artist Stephen Raw was asked to work with a poem that was specially commissioned from...
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  • book covers with stephen raw's lettering

    MA Creative Writing at MMU

    Stephen has lectured to the Creative Writing MA students at Manchester Metropolitan University over the years.
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