Ian Walters

Ian Homer Walters (9 April 1930 – 6 August 2006) was an English sculptor.

[2] A committed socialist from his schooldays, Walters took part in Josip Broz Tito's public sculpture programmes in Yugoslavia in the early 1960s and worked with the African National Congress in the 1970s.

[2] His work includes the memorial to the International Brigades in Jubilee Gardens South Bank, London and a large head of Nelson Mandela (now outside the Royal Festival Hall, London).

He had finished the 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) clay sculpture for the statue of Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square, but died of cancer before it was cast in bronze.

A statue of Stephen Hawking at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology in Cambridge was his last public work.