Alan Collins obituary

Sculptor who was highly skilled at religious and commemorative artAlan Collins, who has died aged 88, was an accomplished figurative sculptor, whose crisp, lucid work appeared in a host of settings in both Britain and the US. As a public artist, he attracted the patronage of corporations such as the National and Grindlays Bank, whose commission Minerva (1966) is located just north of Southwark Cathedral in south London.Its stylised, angular forms and contemporary materials – fibre-reinforc