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United Kingdom
Sculpture, Ceramic on Ceramic
Size: 9.8 W x 9.8 H x 1.2 D in
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I created this sculpture after watching two TV programmes. The first was of the reintroduction of Moose to North East Scotland after an absence of 2,000 years. This was to a huge estate called Alladale, which has been fenced in to keep its resident wildlife from escaping. The long term plan is to reintroduce the wolf to keep the Moose and Red Deer population stable. The second programme was one about dogs, and how we domesticated the 'wolf' to the creatures we see in all our towns and cities today. It turned out the reason we were able to break the 'species barrier' with the wolf was because wolves and ravens already had a symbiotic hunting relationship millennia before humans came along. So much for thinking we're so cleaver! Ravens can spot a kill miles away, and being a chatty species, can lead a wolf to the carrion and rip it open so that both get a meal. Knowing we have ravens up in North East Scotland, I got to wondering how long it would take for this hunting relationship to re-establish again, the Scottish ravens never having seen a wolf before. Since then I've discovered all crows interact this way with our native foxes, so the answer will probably be "no time at all"!
Sculpture:Ceramic on Ceramic
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:9.8 W x 9.8 H x 1.2 D in
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Throughout my life I have pursued my twin loves of natural and ancient history, and spent my teens shuttling between the Museums of Anthropology, Archaeology and Zoology in Cambridge. My natural history sculptures focus primarily on endangered British animals, and those that have made a comeback. After more than 30 years as a ceramicist I am now moving permanently into foundry bronze. This harder and more resilient material liberates the form from gravity and so widens my creative horizons. By exploring the chemistry of bronze patination, I can also achieve all the colour possibilities previously only available in ceramics. One of my sculptures, Hypnia, was inspired by the bronze head of Hypnos the Greek God of sleep in the British Museum, with my larger version sculpted in clay, and then via 3D printing, reduced down, coming full circle back to a life sized bronze. Predominantly my foundry bronzes are an exploration of British and European wildlife. My Buzzard and Red Kite sculptures are of life sized female birds to help the viewer appreciate the scale and presence of the real animal. My present projects are of a mantling Barn Owl, a Kingfisher in a threat display, a stretching, yawning fox and a twisting Badger, working alongside the Barn Owl Trust, the Badger Trust, Wildlife Rescue centres and the League Against Cruel Sports. Presently, I am working on a Badger Trophic Cascade, an ambitious project which describes in 3D what happens to the wider ecosystem after widespread badger culling, and will use the life sized twisting badger as its base, the species you loose flooding out of its back in a big spiral tide, and the two species that increase rising up out of the badgers shoulders. I exhibit regularly in the South East and South West including at the British Museum, the Henley Festival, the Natural History Museum Oxford, the Royal Academy of Arts London, the Mall Gallery London and La Galleria in Pall Mall, and have won four awards for my bronzes. Studio Address: The Happy Crab Gallery, 20A Gloucester street, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 7AW Mobile: 07943 803551
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