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Bronze sheep in front of my studio at Ilmington Manor, Warwickshire
Bronze sheep, side view. Sheep are 1/3 life size
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Sheep may safely graze Sculpture - Limited Edition of 250

Deirdre Nicholls

United Kingdom

Sculpture, Bronze on Bronze

Size: 7.9 W x 13.8 H x 19.7 D in

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After living for some years in rural Dorset, on the south coast of England, I grew to love the local Poll Dorset sheep. I have painted and drawn them for years. Poll Dorsets are hornless sheep; they have close cut dense wool and breed all year round. They have sweet expressions and gentle temperaments. The have a zen-like calm about them and are wonderful mothers, hence the love. I made this set of three sheep as a bronze sculpture for the curated Sculpture Festival at the Cookham Art Fair. Cookham was where Stanley Spencer lived and painted. The piece was exhibited outdoors and attracted a lot of attention. The sheep are one third life size so you can pick them up and move them without difficulty. They come with (optional) stainless steel threaded extensions which screw into the feet and can be cemented into your lawn for security if wished. These steel bars are invisible, as in the photographs. Please note this sculpture is THREE PIECES. The size stated is EACH SHEEP size, and the price is for the SET OF THREE. This is also an edition of 250. If you wish to buy one individual sheep, please contact me . This needs to be cast to order which will take 3-4 months as the foundry is really busy. One SET is available immediately but will take several days to prepare and crate up for shipping so please allow for this time. For further editions there is a 3-4 month production time.

Details & Dimensions

Multi-paneled Sculpture:Bronze on Bronze

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:250

Size:7.9 W x 13.8 H x 19.7 D in

Number of Pieces:3

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Working from my studio in Selkirkshire in the Scottish Borders. I specialise in landscape painting and figurative sculpture. My pink resin Poll Dorset sheep sculpture 'Hello Dolly' was on show at the 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. My three bronze sheep are currently in the sculpture garden of The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh (Originally shown at the Cookham Sculpture Festival sponsored by John Lewis 2022). Recent portrait works focus on women writers and include busts of Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison and ongoing work on a bust of Hannah Arendt. Work in progress can be seen on this YouTube channel, https://bit.ly/2TWDAlH Autumn 2019 completed a private commission for a statuette in bronze of a pioneer of women’s golf for the R&A Golf Museum in St Andrews. Last solo exhibition pre-lockdown was a series of paintings shown at the John Radcliffe in Oxford, based on time spent on the Cote d'Azur. A series of drawings and paintings of Dorset landscapes and sheep paintings was shown at Aspects Gallery in Dorchester, summer 2018. Portrait sculpture work is in public and private collections in the UK, with several in the University of Edinburgh's collection. Other works are in France and the US. Born in Edinburgh, daughter of a sculptor and stonemason, I was trained in traditional methods at Liverpool and Winchester Schools of Art in the 1970’s and was an early winner of the Northern Young Contemporaries Prize , awarded by the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester in1975. Winchester had suberb visiting and in-house lecturers in the 1970's, benefitted from teaching by William Pye, Norman Ackroyd, Patrick Heron, John Bellany and many others who were both great artists and good teachers. My most notable work to date is a large bronze portrait of Nelson Mandela, for Glasgow City Council. A specialist in portraits from both live sitters and reconstructions, and also a classicist,I created a reconstruction of Alexander the Great in 2018, after a period of extensive research undertaken for an MA in Classics with the OU.

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