The young George Fullard made his name as a realist sculptor with lifelike portraits and figures – like his beautifully observed 1956 sculpture Mother and Child, in Sheffield city centre. But that was just the beginning.

Sculpture for Fullard was a many-layered medium, in which he wanted to give potent physical form to memory and what he called ’the phantom’. Fullard’s biographer Michael Bird explores the sculptor’s dreams and demons, including the lifelong influence of his Sheffield childhood and wartime trauma. Join Michael as he draws out the central themes that run through different phases of Fullard’s career, and his inspiring legacy as a maverick thinker and teacher.

This online talk runs alongside the current Graves Gallery exhibition George Fullard: Living in a Sculpture.