Ed Elliot

{{Short description|English sculptor}}

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| birth_name = Edward Morrison Elliott

| birth_date = 1985

| birth_place = Worcester, UK

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| nationality = British

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| field = Sculpture

| training = Cardiff School of Art & Design

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| works = include Greer

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| awards = h.Art 2012 Young Artist's Bursary

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}}Ed Elliott (born 1985) is an English sculptor who achieved national recognition for his large wooden angel commissioned by the National Trust.{{cite news

|url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/9348508.Sculptor_is_given_trust_commission/

|title=Sculptor is given trust commission

|date=8 November 2011

|work=Worcester News

|publisher=Newsquest Media Group

|accessdate=14 September 2012}}

Elliott, who won the Hereford based h.Art 2012 Young Artist's Bursary,{{cite news

|url=http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/9917392.h_Art_2012/

|title=h.Art 2012

|date=7 September 2012

|work=Hereford Times

|publisher=Newsquest Media Group

|accessdate=14 September 2012}}

was educated at The Chase School in Barnards Green, Malvern, Worcestershire.{{cite news

|url=http://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/9920373.Young_sculptor_s_career_takes_off/

|title=Young sculptor's career takes off

|last=Watts

|first=Neil

|date=11 September 2012

|work=Malvern Gazette

|publisher=Newsquest Media Group

|accessdate=14 September 2012}}

and obtained a BA(Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture) from Cardiff School of Art & Design in 2008.

His angel sculpture Greer has a 14' (4.26m) wingspan, carved from London Plane wood from the Mottisfont Estate and was commissioned by the National Trust,{{cite web

|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-national-trust-reveals-the-angel-garden-at-mottisfont-135443328.html

|title=The National Trust Reveals The Angel Garden at Mottisfont

|date=12 December 2012

|work=PR Newswire

|format=Press release

|accessdate=14 September 2012

|location=Swindon}} The sculpture which was installed on the Trust's Mottisfont Estate near Romsey in Hampshire,{{cite web

|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-15838130

|title=Mottisfont's Boris Anrep-inspired angel sculptures mark 65 years

|date=22 November 2012

|work=BBC News, Hampshire and isle of Wight

|publisher=BBC

|accessdate=14 September 2012}}{{cite news

|url=http://www.romseyadvertiser.co.uk/news/news/9397391.Angels_are_sent_to_gather_at_the_Font/

|title=Angels are sent to gather at the Font

|date=2 December 2011

|work=Romsey Advertiser

|publisher=Nesquest Media Group

|accessdate=14 September 2012}} is now part of a collection in Essex alongside sculptures by Antony Gormley, Elisabeth Frink, and Thomas Heatherwick.{{cite news

|url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/9471837.Ed_spreads_his_wings_for_exhibition/

|title=Ed spreads his wings for exhibition

|date=16 January 2012

|work=Worcester News

|publisher=Newsquest Media Group

|accessdate=14 September 2012

|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505114120/http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/9471837.Ed_spreads_his_wings_for_exhibition/

|archive-date=5 May 2013

|url-status=dead

}}

Elliott's works have also been exhibited in New Zealand, Italy, and Vietnam. He lives (as of 2012) in Malvern, and maintains a studio in Ledbury, Herefordshire, near Malvern{{cite news

|url=http://www.herefordtimes.com/leisure/visualarts/9465566.Ed_Elliott_exhibition_at_Trumpet_Corner_studio_near_Ledbury/

|title=Ed Elliott exhibition at Trumpet Corner studio near Ledbury

|date=13 January 2012

|work=Hereford Times

|publisher=Newsquest Media Group

|accessdate=14 September 2012}}