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In fine form

T’S all about place-making’, says Hamish Mackie, the Oxford-shire-based sculptor who was commissioned in 2014 to model the six bronze life-and-a-quarter size bolting horses at The Berkeley Group’s Goodman’s Fields development in Aldgate, London E1. The award-winning landmark composition cleverly references what were once open fields let for livery grazing in 1598 by a Mr Goodman. ‘I modelled each without a plinth to make the experience more accessible and emphasised movement,’ says Mr Mackie. ‘The Russian Arab is rearing, others are

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