The BBC will begin restoring the Eric Gill sculpture outside its London headquarters after it was vandalised in 2022. The work, commissioned to depict Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, was attacked with a hammer by a protester last year. There have long been calls to remove public works by Gill after his private diaries – published half a century after the artist’s death in 1940 – revealed he had sexually abused his two eldest daughters.
