Significant artworks of John McKenna include the ‘Colossus of Brownhills’ a 46 foot/13m high fabricated stainless steel figure of a miner for the Staffordshire town of Brownhills. Another large artwork of 7m x 7m fabricated in sheet bronze was made as the main artwork in the Grand Lobby area of the trans-Atlantic Cunard liner, the Queen Mary 2 and another for the Queen Victoria liner. One of his most significant earlier career enhancing artworks was a life-size bronze sculpture group of Jersey Cattle for the capital city of Jersey, in the Channel Islands. During this project John had the great honour and unique opportunity of showing his work in progress cattle sculpture to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh. Back home in Scotland John has created bronze statues, several of them in Glasgow, including the Jock Stein and Billy McNeill statues at the Celtic FC Park Head stadium and the Auchengeich mining memorial, at Moodiesburn. Currently John is working on a pair of colossal figures in fabricated stainless steel for Port Glasgow alongside a statue of the legendary Scottish flyweight boxing champion, Benny Lynch.
