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Born in 1923, Garson was a glassworker for much of his life based in Manchester. One of his most famous works is the wooden sculpture of Nelson Mandela, which was placed in Manchester Town Hall’s main entrance area in 1986, to be later given to its subject and still resides in Mandela’s estate.

Sol Garson also produced a memorial to the International Brigades at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford and was a regular contributor to the 1970s creative writing journal, `Voices’. He also produced several other wood-carved sculptures some of them in private or museum collections but none other known of the same size as “The Prisoner”.

Sol Garson passed away in 1994 leaving behind him large amount of artworks and essays.