I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream

By: Mark Jamieson, 2004
Medium: cast bronze
Size: 102 x 110mm
Cast by: Niagara Falls Castings
Issue: The Medal, no. 46 (2005)
Edition: 22

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Mark Jamieson was born in 1950 and brought up in Belfast. He studied art at Belfast College of Art and Portsmouth Polytechnic, specialising in sculpture, and later took a degree course in graphic design and illustration at Brighton University. Subsequently, his teaching has included lecturing in graphic design at various universities in south-east England. For nearly twenty years he and his partner ran the Promenade Pottery in Brighton, selling slip cast pottery to the public and supplying shops such as London’s Liberty. Graphic commissions have included those from Dorling Kindersley, the Japanese Grand Prix and the World Federation of Motor Sports, and he continues to produce work for a wide range of books published by the Ivy Press. In 1996 he made a series of sculptural pieces for Coopers & Lybrand. 2002 saw his first collaborative public art project – two murals for Crawley. Over the last several years he has produced a considerable amount of public art for use on Royal Caribbean Line cruisers, enabling him to explore a wide range of different media, including metal, wood and plaster. His medal of Martin Luther King is Mark Jamieson’s first medal. A unique silver version was acquired by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in 2004. Now BAMS is issuing an edition in bronze. The artist writes about his medal and about the American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King: ‘In August 2003, coming up to the fortieth anniversary of the “I have a dream” speech, I kept hearing those famous recordings. The speech is one of the great icons of our time and I wanted to celebrate the inspirational power of his words, and life.’