'Titled Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015,
the exhibition runs from 14 September until 25 October and is the biggest
staged to date by Sotheby’s at Chatsworth. Guest curated by Tim Marlow, the
Director of Artistic Programmes at The Royal Academy of Arts, the exhibition
will feature more than 30 monumental sculptures woven into the landscape of the
famous garden at Chatsworth, home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.
Beyond Limits will
consider the breadth and international impact of some of the best sculpture by
Britain’s leading artists of the past 65 years. Highlights include Barbara
Hepworth’s ‘Three Obliques (Walk-In)’, Anthony Caro’s ‘Sunshine’ and Lynn
Chadwick’s ‘Pair of Walking Figures – Jubilee’ alongside works by Antony
Gormley, Sarah Lucas, Reg Butler and Philip King '
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/beyond-limits-l15010.html
Fantastic exhibition as usual - my favourites......
Simon Periton (1964-present) attended St Martin’s School of Art, London,
where he was influenced by fashion, stating:
“I don’t view an interesting fashion designer any differently than an interesting
artist”.
More recently he has worked in a wider range of media and reflected
influences ranging from organic forms to punk,
psychedelia and the gothic.
Guerilla Gardener is made from steel and coated
in spray paint and lacquer. Despite Periton taking
inspiration from the natural world and organic
forms, his work is not designed to appear pleasant
and green in the traditional sense. Periton has also
been fascinated by alchemy and transformative chemical processes.
Woodrow (1948-present) studied at Winchester School of Art, St. Martin’s and Chelsea School of Art. He was one of a number of British sculptors (including Tony Cragg) to emerge in the late 1970’s on to the international contemporary art scene. For his early work he initially used materials found in dumps, used car lots and scrap yards by partially embedding them in plaster. Woodrow’s works have often featured a narrative element. ‘Regardless of History’ was installed in Trafalgar Square from 2000-2001. It is one of a range of sculptures in which Woodrow uses the book as a theme. The work is heavy on symbolism, with humanity’s fragility verses the power of nature being central.
Anya Gallacio (1963-present) often focuses on organic materials within her work. She grew up in London and attended Goldsmiths College, following which she exhibited alongside Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas. Sometimes Gallaccio’s work organically changes during the exhibition. For example In Red on Green, ten thousand rose heads placed on a bed of their stalks gradually withered as the exhibition went on.
Fantastic exhibition as usual - my favourites......
Woodrow (1948-present) studied at Winchester School of Art, St. Martin’s and Chelsea School of Art. He was one of a number of British sculptors (including Tony Cragg) to emerge in the late 1970’s on to the international contemporary art scene. For his early work he initially used materials found in dumps, used car lots and scrap yards by partially embedding them in plaster. Woodrow’s works have often featured a narrative element. ‘Regardless of History’ was installed in Trafalgar Square from 2000-2001. It is one of a range of sculptures in which Woodrow uses the book as a theme. The work is heavy on symbolism, with humanity’s fragility verses the power of nature being central.
Antony Gormley (1950-present) is best known for
monumental public sculptures such as the Angel
of the North and Another Place on Crosby
Beach.
Gormley grew up in a wealthy family in West
Yorkshire. He studied archaeology, anthropolgy
and the history of art at Cambridge, before
going on to St Martin’s School of Art and
Goldsmith’s College London.
Big Guage II is made from Corten Steel and is a representation of Gormley
himself, a common theme in his work. It is the frist time the sculpture has been
exhibited publically.
Barbara Hepworth
The curling shape and smooth texture of Sea
Form is inspired by the landscape and beaches
surrounding Hepworth’s studio in St Ives, where it
was created in 1964. The sculpture is often
compared to breaking waves and footprints in
the sand. Hepworth had commented that her
studio’s location gave her an:
“extraordinary feeling being poised above the
changing calligraphy of tide and water
movement, sand and wind movement and the
pattern of men’s and bird’s feet”.
Sarah Lucas (1962-present) is part of the generation of
young British artists, including Damien Hirst and Angus
Fairhurst, who emerged during the 1990s. Her work often
includes humour or puns as well as a range of media,
such as collage, photography and collected objects.
In the late 1990s Lucas worked on a series of selfportraits
focusing on femininity, one of which can be
seen right.
Kevin and Florian are both made from polished bronze
and are both gigantic in scale and fantastical in nature,
appearing to have been dropped from a fairytale.
Lucas’ work often features everyday objects in unusual
settings, transferred to a massive scale.
Anya Gallacio (1963-present) often focuses on organic materials within her work. She grew up in London and attended Goldsmiths College, following which she exhibited alongside Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas. Sometimes Gallaccio’s work organically changes during the exhibition. For example In Red on Green, ten thousand rose heads placed on a bed of their stalks gradually withered as the exhibition went on.
Conrad Shawcross (1977-present)
specialises in large mechanical
sculptures, incorporating philosophical
and scientific ideas. He plays with
movement to create something that
appears random but is in fact intricately
designed, reflecting his interest in the
relationship between nature and
technology.
Dappled Light of the Sun, I-III focusses on the natural patterns of geometry.
Shawcross has used a mathematical form to create a canopy of
tetrahedrons using weathered steel, which changes colour in varying light.
Each cloud is unique and stands on skinny stilts.
Sandy Brown is a ceramic artist, potter, sculptor and painter of international
fame. Her work is easily recognisable by its’ bright and bold colours.
Much like Hepworth, Brown has been inspired by her workplace environment
and the surrounding area. Brown’s studio is based in Appledore, on the North
Devon coast, where white houses overlook a working shipyard and a dry,
empty dock. Brown’s studio is painted in bright kingfisher colours, reflective of
her Temple. It is made using a wooden frame with ceramic columns, arches
and 5200 tiles. Impressively, it is also hand painted. It is designed to be ‘a
temple for the self’, that is a temple for thinking and reflecting.
Phillip King
Ghenghis khan is made from steel and
reflects American abstract
expressionism. In the 1960’s King
created a series of works using the
upwards pointing cone as a starting
point.
Using features such as colours, antlers
and wings, King was able to create
recognisably different sculptures which
he felt were able to shock the viewer:
“I want people to stand aghast for a
second, and I hope they’ll d
Tony Cragg (1949-present) was born
in Liverpool. His early works were
largely site specific pieces. The
majority of Cragg’s work interact with
its’ surroundings, both in terms of the
landscape around them and the
objects within that landscape.
Manipulation is a relatively recent
work, being made in 2008, and is
considered to be an attempt at
describing or explaining the
indescribable. Manipulation is cast in
bronze and is effectively a series of arms reaching out for each other in a
monster-like motion.
