Kate Bush's Milestone

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday is one of my favourite singers. She is still a great inspiration. I sang with a band when I was eighteen and always wore a flower behind my ear to be like her: I felt it brought me luck. This sculpture shares its name with one of her favourite songs. I've tried to depict her mouth in mid-song growing among the flowers like "Strange Fruit."

With thanks to Thomas Ostenberg

Strange Fruit
Bronze mounted on stone, base 15" x 13", height 71/2".
Signed "Kate Bush 1996".