As someone said to me last year, ‘if I can’t hang my car keys on it, why would I buy it?’
OF BIRDS, SHARKS AND A SLIPPERY DIP
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Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS IN 2024
EXHIBITIONS IN 2024 As 2023 comes to an end I am planning for next year. It promises to be busy. The large wooden sculptural works will be out on display for the first time as will many of the smaller pieces. Of particular note will be the installation at Palmer. It...
DEATH AND RESURRECTION OR THE NATURAL PROCESSES OF ATROPHIC ENTROPY
Recently I installed two tall wooden sculptures outside a gallery against a backdrop of endless rows of grape vines. They were there for the duration of an exhibition - a matter of six weeks. They didn’t survive. Oriented east-west to emulate the ancient stone...
TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL – THAT IS THE QUESTION
ou are the artist, the creator, and it is your own ego that is being satisfied. It is rewarding if others understand your aim but it is never your duty to explain it…
THE PUBLIC IN PUBLIC ART – LET’S REMOVE THEM FROM THE EQUATION
s there actually a common denominator for general acceptance or don’t you even bother asking on the basis that if the public sees something often enough they’ll get used to it?
THE VISCERAL, THE THERAPEUTIC, THE INTELLECTUAL. I understand all that but what does it mean?
How very odd that the aspect of being human that we value so much may well prove to be the fatal blow to life on earth