There’s a giant hare crawling across the grassy lawns of Berkeley Square:  British artist Sophie Ryder creates her large animal sculptures from wet plaster, old machine parts, scavenged toys, tangled wire and torn bits of paper, giving them an odd link between the natural and the human world which is reinforced by a duality in her animal’s bodies. Have you ever, for example, seen a hare with feet and hands that look human?  In fact if you looked carefully at the hare, it could be human until you reach the head – how spooky is that?

‘Crawling’, part of Westminster City Council’s art programme for changing contemporary sculpture, here in conjunction with the Hignell Gallery, will be in Berkeley Square for the next 6 months.

What happened to the sweet sounds of the nightingales?  Sadly, a reflection of the times, you no longer hear them in Berkeley Square.