My philosophy towards sculpture, is similar to my attitudes towards other forms of visual arts - including photography, painting and graphic design. The work that interests me most has an 'idea' or 'verbal/visual scandal' attached to it. I have little interest in work that is simply a beautifully crafted copy of something - for me, there has to be more. The three dimensional works here were all produced in 2005. Visit SHOP ON LINE to purchase and for more details.
In nature, there is no such thing as a perfect right-angle, straight line or rectangle. They simply don’t exist. So why is it that mankind, ever since he made his first daubs on a cave wall, has had the uncontrollable urge to create order and symmetry in nature?
In the name of enlightenment and culture, great gardens have been built in places like Versailles, London and Kyoto – gardens where manicured hedgerows and perfectly spaced trees have been planted to follow complex geometric patterns. And who would dare to question their beauty and perfection – even though nature, when left to her own devices would produce a rather more random and (perhaps) more balanced design?
The resources of our planet are not limitless playthings we can indefinitely re-arrange to our liking. Eventually, if we continue to over-use our seas and forests, the balance between nature and life, as we know it today, will cease to exist. In the words of Margaret Mead: “If we don’t start considering our environment, there will be no need to think about civilisation.”
‘A Question of Balance, No 4’ invites us to re-consider the direction mankind is taking: Should we continue to pursue our vacuous attempts to control nature, or should we stand back and bear witness to her freedom to regain her balance?
Lines 5 and 6 from the US National Anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, read: “And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.” (Francis Scott Key, 14th September 1814)
Ironic isn’t it, that the United States’ self-congratulatory national anthem confirms the problem. It is the United States’ presence (spanner) in the lives of people in troubled spots around the world that ensures that the bombs and unrest continue. Visit SHOP ON LINE to purchase and for more details.
A limited edition of 20 Star Bangled Spanners is now available for purchase. Hand cast in Aluminium and painted to look exactly like the 4.5 mtr long original which appeared at Sculpture by the Sea,each spanner is signed and numbered. They are available mounted ready for wall hanging on white or black display boards, or mounted on their own bases for your office desk or home display. Each spanner measures 57 cms x 14 cms x 8 cms and weighs 5.4 kilograms (including base).
An environmental statement, in fifteen pieces. Twenty years ago, three friends and I made a trip around the Australian outback in a six-seater Cessna. At each fly-speck town in the middle of nowhere, I picked up from the butter, a discarded drink can. They had been flung there, presumeably, from passing cars and flattened by passing road-trains in the red dust roads. Visit SHOP ON LINE to purchase and for more details.
These sulptures are two dimensional representations of assemblages constructed in the studio of bits of discared rusting objects.
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