Glance
2 December 2017 – 11 February 2018
New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Focus, 2017, Telescope, gilded skull fragment, meteorite and alabaster disc
Tread Lightly, 2017, Granite dodecahedron, cast bronze foot, alabaster disc
Submerge (diptych), 2017, Archival pigment prints
Hand and Foot, 2017, Cast bronze, alabaster and steel wire
Bog Iris, 2008, Bronze
Egg and Anvil, 2017, Bronze
Meteorite and Gilded Skull, 2017, Archival pigment print
Glance, 2017, Archival pigment print
Bed, 2017, Carrara Marble
Bed, 2017, Carrara Marble
Branch, 2017, Bronze
Arms, 1996–2017, Cast bronze, 24 carat gold leaf
Arms, 1996–2017
The gallery at New Art Centre is a beautiful, long, glassed space leading to a regency orangery. Works were shown inside and outside the glass wall reflecting both to each other.
Glance implies a moment of seeing and physically a light touch or graze.
The central work in the show was a carved marble Bed set in the garden; a narrow single bed with the impression of the absent occupant still remaining on the pillow and sheets pulled back. Inside the orangery a photograph hung of a damaged portrait of a man. His eyes just visible through tissue paper and his glance almost blinded for the awaiting repair. Several of the works in the show present a type of disembodiment, fragments of body; finger-tips cast in gold, feet cast in bronze, in suspension and grounded by circles of translucent alabaster.
At the centre of the show is a photograph of the inside of a human skull gilded with bright yellow gold, harboring a meteorite: the human skull in transition from body meeting the meteorite in transition from space.
List of works (click to expand)
Branch, 2017, Bronze, 20 cm x 203 cm x 15 cm
Arms, 1996–2017, Cast bronze, 24 carat gold leaf, 16 cm x 80 cm x 9 cm each
Submerge (diptych), 2017, Archival pigment prints, 69.4 cm x 94.8 cm x 3.5 cm each
Bed, 2017, Carrara Marble, 89 cm x 230 cm x 100 cm
Hand and Foot, 2017, Cast bronze, alabaster and steel wire, Height variable, alabaster disc: 50 cm diameter
Egg and Anvil, 2017, Bronze, 21 cm x 21 cm x 7.5 cm
Focus, 2017, Telescope, gilded skull fragment, meteorite and alabaster disc, Height variable, alabaster disc: 40 cm diameter
Fingertips, 2017, Telescope, gilded skull fragament, gold leaf, scales, cast silver gilded finger-tips and alabaster disc, Telescope: 49 cm
Tread Lightly, 2017, Granite dodecahedron, cast bronze foot, alabaster disc, Height variable, alabaster disc: 50 cm diameter, granite: 22 cm x 22 cm x 22 cm, foot: 10 cm x 9 cm x 10 cm in diameter, Granite: 22 x 22 x 22 cm/8.6 in x 8.6 in x 8.6 in, Foot: 10 x 9 x 10 cm/ 4 cm x 3.5 cm x 4 cm
Bath, 2015, Cast iron bath and gold dust, bronze facecloth, sponge, soap, and nailbrush, 61 cm x 182 cm x 75 cm
Glance, 2017, Archival pigment print, 64.5 cm x 60.5 cm x 3.5 cm
Statues, 2017, Archival pigment print, 105 cm x 140.5 cm x 3.5 cm
Bog Iris, 2008, Bronze, 83 cm x 8 cm x 10 cm
Meteorite and Gilded Skull, 2017, Archival pigment print, 57.3 cm x 50.6 cm x 3.5 cm
Tributaries (Speckled Egg), 2017, Archival pigment print, 69.5 cm x 95 cm x 3.5 cm
Tributaries (Gilded Skull), 2017, Archival pigment print, 69.5 cm x 95 cm x 3.5 cm
Foreshore, 2017, Archival pigment print, 45.7 cm x 122.7 cm x 3.5 cm
Curved Cave, 2017, Archival pigment print, 69.2 cm x 221 cm x 4.8 cm
Altar (diptych), 2017, Archival pigment prints, Altar: 104.3 cm x 85 cm x 3.5 cm, coral: 84.3 cm x 85.2 cm x 3.5 cm
Grasp, 2017, Gilded silver, cast bronze vertebra, alabaster disc, wooden coat hanger, Height variable, alabaster disc: 42 cm diameter
Whale Bone II, 2010, Bronze, 123.5 cm x 52 cm x 36.5 cm