Name: Lend A Hand Exhibition
Start: 2024-07-19T10:00:00+01:00
Location: Rochester Cathedral

The installation in the cathedral’s Crypt comprises a display of the framed hands of 25 top British sportswomen and men, produced by an international award-winning body-cast sculptor to benefit the baby loss support charity, Abigail’s Footsteps.
The display can be viewed throughout the period of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games from July 19- August 31
Rochester Cathedral opening Hours:
10am – 4pm Monday – Saturday
1pm – 3pm Sunday
The hands are being auctioned online until September 14th: https://superstars-auctions.com/abigailsfootsteps

The 25 Sporting Models

Sir Geoffrey Hurst MBE – Football, World Cup Winner, the only surviving member of the 1966 squad

Olympians and Paralympians
Dame Katherine Grainger – Rowing, Chair for Sport UK, Olympic and World Champion
Kriss Akabusi MBE – Athletics, Olympic medallist, World and European Champion
Jon-Allan Butterworth MBE – Cycling, Paralympic and World Champion
Susannah Townsend MBE- Olympic and European Champion, Commonwealth medallist
Sally Gunnell OBE - Athletics, Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Champion
Jayne Torvill MBE – Ice Dance, Olympic, World, European Champion
Eddie The Eagle Edwards – Ski Jumping, Olympian, National Record Holder 1988-2001
Shirley Roberson OBE – Sailing, Olympic, World and European Champion
Louise Sugden – Wheelchair Basketball and Para Powerlifting - World Champion, Paralympian and Commonwealth medallist –a strong contender to represent Team GB for Paris 2024
Adam Duggleby MBE – Cycling, National, Paralympic and World Champion
Kate Hayward – Swimming, Olympian, Commonwealth medallist

Rugby players
Emily Scarratt MBE – England team, Six Nations and World Cup Winner
Sarah Hunter MBE- England team, Six Nations and World Cup Winner
Lewis Ludlow – England team
Zainab Alema - Richmond
Victor Ubogu – England team
Craig Chalmers – Scotland team
Lee Mears - England team
Chris Jones – England team
Buster White – Barbarians and Wasps RFC
Russell Earnshaw – England Sevens
Phil Tuffnell – Cricket, England Team
Chris Cowdrey – Cricket, England Team

The sculptor - Louise Giblin MRSS
www.louisegiblin.co.uk

Sculptor Louise Giblin grew up on the Isle of Wight and lives and works on the Kent/ East Sussex border. She was selected to represent UK in the G7 of Art, Italy, 2017. She won the Lorenzo Il Magnifico Gold, 1st place for Sculpture at the Florence Biennale, October 2017. In April 2018, she received an ATIM International Award for Contemporary Art at the Museum of Art and Design New York. She has been a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2010 and a Vice-President of Abigail’s Footsteps since 2020.

Louise is predominantly known for life casting - covering famous people such as Michael Portillo and Heather Mills, models and private clients with plaster or alginate. She then usually makes a copy of her model covered with biographical and other imagery which is cast into bronze. She has cast 34 high achieving sportsman and her ‘Body Casting Olympians’ at the Mall Galleries London 2012, featured sculptures produced from Team GB models including Sally Gunnell OBE, Dame Kelly Holmes and Kriss Akabusi MBE.