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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sorcha Dallas

UNBELIEVABLE: David harding obituary | History Defined

Tall concrete sculptures that look like totem poles
Heritage, by artist David Harding, is made up of several concrete sculptures. Photograph: Orlando Britain/Alamy

The sculptor and educator David Harding, who has died aged 88, insisted that art should stand in the same weather as everyone else.

As town artist for Glenrothes, Fife, in the late 1960s and 70s, he embedded sculpture in underpasses, bus stops, and housing schemes, working with planners rather than against them and using the same concrete and brick as the surrounding streets. The result was not ornament but argument: that public space could carry memory, poetry and dissent.

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