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Born England 1949. Sculptor specialising in recycled materials. Curator. |
| About the Artist | |
Sculptor using found objects from scrapyards, the town dump and roadside. Mostly zoomorphic and anthropomorhic, occasionally abstract. Eclectic in his influences. Equally interested in mediaeaval European sculpture, African tribal. Surrealism strongest inlfluence. British Museum regular source of inspiration the Louvre in Paris and the Bode in Berlin occasional. |
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Boy Acrobat on Crocodile
2008 |
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| Inspired by a Roman sculpture in the British Museum showing a boy acrobat from the Tentrytae tribe which specialised in acrobatics on crocodiles. |
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Close up of Boy on Acrobat
2008 |
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| Inspired by a Roman sculpture in British Museum showing a boy acrobat from the Tentrytae tribe on a crocodile.Photo courtesy
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Shaftesbury Monster
2005 |
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| Made with materials from Langford Car Spares on whose fence it is placed. Inspired by the mediaeval grotesque sculptures of fanicful beasts in the museum in nearby Shaftesbury Dorset. These came from the long demolished abbey. In 2007 this image was used for a poster on the London Underground railways system in the Art Below exhibition. |
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Frederick the Frog
2007 |
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| A commission from London Zoo for a frog to publicize the Year of the Frog in 2008 a campaign to highlight the perilous plight of amphibians worldwide and to take measures to save them. |
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Harlequin
2003 |
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| Inspired by the Picasso series on harlequins.The legs and heads were lucky finds given by a tree surgeon.It was exhibited in Shires Yard Bath where this photo was taken. |
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Monster from the Deep
2006 |
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| Placed by the lake at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey in the Art in the Garden group sculpture exhibition in 2006. |
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Egyptian Frieze
2007 |
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| A procession of ancient Egyptian gods process through pyramids to an altar. |
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War
2007 |
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| Based on Douanier Rousseau's painting although here the figure on the horse/monster is male rather than female. On a lance is a skull. another source was a mediaeval carving in the abbey at Romsey Hampshire in which there are runaway horse/monsters on a battlefield. War was on show at Frome Festival in 2008 up another tree where it took a different shape. |
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Toad of Toad Hall
2006 |
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| A commission to create Toad of Toad Hall and his friends. This shows him crashing a car for the umpteeenth time. |
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Toad, Ratty and Mole
2006 |
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| Ratty and Mole bite their nails as Toad crashed his car for the umpteenth time. Inspired by the Wind in the Willows |
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Silver Spider
2005 |
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| The Silver Spider hangs from a web in a Sussex garden. |
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Make Love Not War
2006 |
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| Two kings try to kill each other. Above an angel tries to keep them apart(see next image). Made for the 2006 Art in the Garden exhibition at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey and based on an early mediaeval carving in Romsey Abbey in which angels try and prevent kings killing each other. |
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Make Love Not War
2006 |
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| In the apple tree an angel hovers above and tries to separate two fighting kings. In foreground a green man with a roller. |
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Owl
2006 |
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| The wind is lifting up the wings of the owl. A TV satellite dish made a perfect face. |
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Harlequin
2007 |
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| In green and blue recycled glass; it sparkles in sun. |
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Harlequin with hat
2008 |
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| The moustache is a vacuum cleaner part. |
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Mother and Child from Space
2005 |
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| Made for an image for a Christmas card which startled some of the recipients. |
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Silver Bird
2006 |
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| A new use for motorbike frames. |
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Man with a Gun
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Cockatrice
2005 |
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| The cockerel head monster of the Middle Ages |
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Cyberman
2007 |
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| Inspired by sci fi. Image by
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Mask
2008 |
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| In a hoar frost. |
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Giant eggcups
2007 |
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Gladiator
2003 |
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Penguins at London Zoo
2008 |
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| Made for the Love London Recycled Sculpture Show at London Zoo which he alos curated. They were placed by these young monkey puzzle trees to represent the ecological problems that could be caused by global warming. |
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| Education and biography | |
| Educated Oxford University Curated and exhibited in Love London Recycled Sculpture Show at London Zoo 2008. Exhibited Art in the Garden at Hillier gardens, Romsey 2008,Penny Brohn Exhbition Bristol 2008, Frome Festival 2008, West Oxon Art Gallery 2008,Torquay Fringe Festival 2008,Lyme Regis Festival 2007, Willow Barn Weston-super-Mere 2007, Love London Recycled Sculpture Show 2007 (also curated), Art in the Garden , Hillier's Garden, Romsey 2006, Black Swan Open Arts Exhibition Frome 2005 |
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| Future shows | |
| Curating and exhibiting Love London Recycled Sculpture Show at World Wildfowl Trust (WWT) London Wetland Centre 2009. Curating and exhibiting Horsepower, an exhibition themed on horses at Horseworld near Bristol 2009. | |
| Website: www.sculpturemad.com | |
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