Case Study - Kemps Men

Will Kemp was a famous Elizabethan actor and a friend of Shakespear and it is probable that many of the Bard's comic roles were written with Kemp in mind. Besides his fame as Shakespeare's clown, he achieved renown for his Morris Dancing. He performed the remarkable feat of dancing from London to Norwich, a distance of 125 miles, in nine days. He later recorded this journey in his book, Kemps Nine Daies Wonder and the carved statue in Chapelfield Gardens in Norwich commemorates this feat.

From a tree trunk to a completed sculpture !!! This shows the beginning of the work and the outline of the shapes on the trunk of the tree Follow the tour to see the stages in between