Can’t you see I cannot let you in If I started I am worried I could not stop When I speak I worry I will not stop I want to write but I might not Know when to stop I’m lost in thought and I don’t want to come back Maybe if there is …
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Martin at the foundry with his commemoration to the armaments workers in World Wars I and II 'Women of Steel', now installed in front of Sheffield's City Hall. Image ©Steve Russell Studios "My first real experience with sculpture was to saw some blocks of stone in half in a sculptor's workshop in Oxford. Ridiculous bearing …
This is the showing-forth of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that neither what has come to be from man in time might become faded, nor that great and wondrous deeds, those shown forth by Greeks and those by barbarians, might be without their glory; and together with all this, also through what cause they warred …
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All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. Jacques Lipchitz 1891-1973 The idea of casting in bronze has roots that stretch back over 5,000 years. Fire's power to destroy …
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Hello! Thanks for visiting my shiny new blog. I work in the art production and exhibition industry. I'm writing articles, interviews and observations about contemporary sculpture, artists and creative processes. At the moment I'm working on an article about bronze casting which I'll publish here in the next couple of days. Watch this space...
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Making a Start 