News
Work progress in Drammen, Norway
Work is progressing in Drammen (see news item dated 9th May 2008) on the water sculpture due to be completed in 2011. On site, pipes and cables have...
2009 Marsh Award for best fountain
The Salisbury Cathedral Font was joint winner of the 2009 Marsh Award for best new fountain or water feature in the last five years. This was announced on...
An example of the Coanda effect in a private garden in south London. The water is allowed to spill over the edge of a bowl and adheres to...
Shimmer has its genesis in the mediaeval garden at Ninfa, south of Rome, where at one point water appears under a shallow layer of grass to become a...
A new permanent font for Salisbury Cathedral
I have worked on the project on and off for the past ten years and the font is now completed and was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury...
New work by William Pye at the Royal British Society of Sculptors
'Beneath the Surface: A Decade of Projects Seen in Depth' opens on 5th June 2008. Alongside recently completed works, it will feature maquettes, drawings and photographs of five...
Major makeover at King's Cross, London
A new 8.5 metre sculpture is now in King's Cross on the same site that my first major commission appeared over thirty years ago. I returned to the...
William Pye wins competition in Norway
On 5th May 2008 William Pye won a major international sculpture competition for a water sculpture to occupy a new square in the town of Drammen, near Oslo...
On 1st November 2006 I learned that the head of the Mariinsky organisation wished to acquire three of my works - 'Coracle', 'Dish Vortex' and 'Starburst'. These water...
September 2006: new sculpture in Greece
In early September 2006 'Attica', an eight metre high, six tonne water sculpture in mirror-polished stainless steel was loaded and sent on its way by road and ferry...