Belgrano Medal - a Medal of Dishonour

by: Michael Sandle, 1986
medium: cast bronze
size: 81.5mm
issue: The Medal, no. 10 (1986)
edition: 56

description: Sandle has taught sculpture in England, Canada and more recently Germany, where he is now Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Karlsruhe. The controversial Belgrano Medal shows Margaret Thatcher as a death's head labelled 'Shameless Empress'. (See The Medal, no.12 (1988), pp.61-4).