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This is a close up - sorry not a great image! - of the clay model of Robert Burns made before casting in both bronze and plaster
Bronze bust of Robert Burns - life size, looking right
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Robert Burns, life size, plaster cast

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Robert Burns, Bronze, life size. No 2 of a limited edition of 9) Sculpture

Deirdre Nicholls

United Kingdom

Sculpture, Bronze on Bronze

Size: 9.8 W x 17.3 H x 15 D in

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Life size bronze head of Robert Burns, modelled in clay and cast in Bronze at Powderhall Foundry, Edinburgh. Created using information gleaned from the 3 known contemporary portraits of the poet, one by Nasmyth (1787), one by Reid (1795-6) and a silhouette by Miers (1787). All of these portraits are on display in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Using this information, plus the knowledge that he was 5'10, (Cunningham 1834),I could work out the size and proportions of his skull, then the profile from the Miers, then the 3/4 views from the Nasmyth, and the pony tail from descriptions of him 'aping the poet'. The edition is limited to 9 + 2 Artists' proofs, and the piece is mounted on a piece of polished granite. The first bronze was is with a US collector & editor of 'Robert Burns Lives!' , the magazine of the Robert Burns World Federation. A plaster cast belongs to the former secretary of the Edinburgh Burns Club and co-editor of the Burns Encyclopedia, Prof. David Purdie, who has a comprehensive website, and two other plaster casts are in private collections. Exhibited 2015 at the Burns Museum Alloway, and at Burns gatherings and conferences in Scotland.

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Bronze on Bronze

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

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9.8 W x 17.3 H x 15 D in

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Currently showing at The Royal Ulster Academy of Arts in Belfast, Oct 18th 2024- Jan 5th 2025. The work selected for this show ('Hello Dolly') was first shown at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2023, then at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2024. Previous shows include the Cookham Festival Sculpture Garden 2022 and The Scottish Gallery's garden exhibition 2023. Represented by the Compass Gallery and Gerber Fine Art in Glasgow, Scotland, I have work in public and private collections in the UK, with several in the University of Edinburgh's collection and a prominent work - a commissioned bronze bust of Nelson Mandela - in Glasgow City Chambers. Other works are in France and the US. Other achievements: 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. Solo show of a series of paintings at the John Radcliffe, 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. 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 - an early winner of the Northern Young Contemporaries Prize awarded by the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester in1975. Winchester had superb visiting and in-house lecturers in the 1970's and I benefited from teaching by William Pye, Norman Ackroyd, Patrick Heron, John Bellany and many others who were both great artists and good teachers. 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.

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