Philip Jackson

Sculptor Philip Jackson (born 1944) has been one of Britain's leading public artists for many years now, engaged to create realistic figures for several important public monuments. But I just discovered today that he also makes these wonderfully surreal works. I can't find dates for any of these, not even on his own web site, but they seem to be fairly recent, within the past 15 years or so. I love all of these.

Below, images of Jackson sculptures at Chichester Cathedral, by photographer Simon Rutter.

And one of his realistic works: Constantine the Great, installed in York in 1998.