Sculptural relief of Mother and Children Playing

The sculptural relief titled ‘Mother and Children Playing’ was created by Peter Laszlo Peri between 1951 and 1952. It is mounted on the stair tower of Horton House, which is not listed. The relief measures 1.89 meters tall and 2.56 meters wide and is made of red ochre, tan, and yellow coloured concrete laid over expanded metal mesh. It features a naturalistic depiction of a mother and three children dancing in a ring, with the mother and the boy on the right crafted in red ochre concrete, the boy in the center in yellow, and the girl on the left in tan. The figures emerge from a curved projecting brick soldier course. Originally, the composition was framed by dark coloured pointing to the brick to enhance its visibility, but this has since been replaced with standard mortar.