BBC House’s Restored Sculpture by Artist and Sexual Abuser Eric Gill Goes Back on View
10-04-2025 21:15 via artnews.com

BBC House’s Restored Sculpture by Artist and Sexual Abuser Eric Gill Goes Back on View

The BBC Broadcasting House in London has restored a sculpture by Eric Gill, an artist associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement who is also known to have sexually abused his daughters, on its exterior. The work is now encased behind panels of protective glass after it was defaced twice.A BBC spokeswoman told the BBC, which first reported the news, the corporation “in no way condones Gill’s abusive behaviour” but that it “draws a line between the actions of Gill, and th
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