Artists M – Z – Harlow Sculpture

Oct 30

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Ovie Usher 0 comments tags: Wave

Oovie Usher

Works Wave2011 steelTorkildsen Way Oovie, an art student at Harlow College won the Barratt Homes Sculpture competition with this design. New housing developments in Harlow provide the sites with new artworks. The Wave is based on the Tsunami. It was fabricated for the estate from her design. She has continued with her studies in art. Having completed her BA in Sculpture at Plymouth University, Truro, Cornwall she has continued there as an art technician in printmaking. Recently qualified as a teacher.(2018). Oovie took part in the Friends of Harlow Sculpture competition for youngsters , when a student at Harlow College in 2011:see Newsletter No 13.

Oct 02

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Christopher Salaman 0 comments tags: Mother and Child

Christopher Salaman

Salaman was born in Dorking in 1939. He studied at Camberwell where he was a student of Karel Vogel. He worked in Essex. Works Mother and Child Bronze 1982 39 x 18 x 28 cm Gibberd Gallery Mother and Child was acquired by Harlow District Council in 1984 and sited in Kingsmoor House in the entrance hall. It was rehoused in the Gallery when Kingsmoor House closed.

Oct 02

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Betty Rea 0 comments tags: Kore, Stretching

Betty Rea

1904 – 1965 Betty Rea (Bevan), great niece of Dr Barnardo, was born in London. She studied art at Regent Street Polytechnic and continued her training at the RCA in 1924 in sculpture under Moore and Ernest Cole. She married James Rea in 1926 and divorced in 1942.She became a political activist, anti fascism and left wing, and was secretary for the Artists’ International Movement from 1934-6. During the war she taught art to evacuated children in Huntingdonshire making her home with the artist Nan Youngman. They founded the initiative to loan art works to schools. She later taught at Homerton College. She became recognised for her realism in the 50’s and exhibited with Paul Hogarth and Carel Weight in Looking at People, which was sent on to Moscow in 1957.Her works are modelled in clay and then cast up into ciment fondu, bronze or resin. Living close to the sculptor John Mills in Cambridge she was able to see her later works completed by him. Her son Julian is a Trustee for Harlow Art.The two works we have in Harlow Kore (Old Harlow) and Stretching (Gibberd Garden) are girl figures in naturalistic poses. Works KoreBronze 1963Ht 150 cm Kore […]

Sep 27

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Nick Turvey 0 comments tags: Chief, Methuselah

Nick Turvey

Nick Turvey graduated in 2006 with an MA from the Royal College of Art in London. Since then he has exhibited his sculpture internationally, and won a number of large public commissions. In 2008 he received a bursary from the Royal British Society of Sculptors, in 2009 an award from Arts Council England, and in 2010 the Brian Mercer Award for Stonecarving. He had a one-man show at the Gibberd Gallery ‘All Alone Together’ 19.6 – 24.8.13, which was an installation of three ‘bunkers’, constructed by and used by the community. Nick Turvey, All Alone Together, 2013 Wild Pansy Press ISBN 10 1-900687-45-3. Works Chief date unknown Harlow has a new town sculpture on the green by the Harvey Centre and the Playhouse. Offered on loan for ten years to the Art Trust, ‘Chief’ by Nick Turvey can be appreciated in the round, making its form dynamic for the viewer. It was acquired through the efforts of the Art Trust and the Council. The Friends were happy to contribute to the cost of its transportation from studio to site.Many of you will be already familiar with Nick Turvey’s piece ‘Methuselah’ (2010), which came out of the Newhall projects and was […]

Sep 27

by Admin in Artists M - Z, Tony Stallard, Uncategorised 0 comments tags: Ghost in the Machine

Tony Stallard

Born in Bow 1958.Attended Camberwell School of Art, then Wimbledon 1991-3 and achieved his MAFA in Public Art from Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 1995.His works are often done in collaboration with architects and engineers and are site specific. He uses bronze, steel and LED lighting. He has exhibited in Ireland, UK, Czech Republic and Canada. Stallard lives and works in Coggershall,Essex. Answering a post on Axisweb he was commissioned in November 2011 for a permanent structure for the back wall of the Playhouse, Harlow. Made of steel and pulsating LED lights it depicts a harlequin entering through the wall into the theatre, he describes it as ‘entering in an ethereal way,as a reflection of the theatre and its relationship with its public – both now and of its past.’The title ‘Ghost in the Machine’ may refer to the title of Arthur Koestler’s book about mind/body relations. Stallard work sometimes reflects the spiritual. There is also an album entitled this by Police and a detective series. His namesake, age 24,was arrested in Portsmouth Cemetery for pretending to be a ghost in 2017.The sculpture ‘disappeared’ in 2016 under a posted advertisement.For image see Sculpture Map https://www.tonystallard.co.uk Works Ghost in […]

Sep 26

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Paul Mason 0 comments tags: Courtyard, Hinge, Vertex

Paul Mason

1952-2006 Mason was born in Bolton in 1952. He studied at Bolton College of Art and Design, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and the Royal Academy Schools. He won the Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1976. In 2002, he completed a major commission of six sculptures along the East Yar River on the Isle of Wight. Mason died in 2006. Works VertexDove grey Bardolino marble from Carrara 1979 76x76x213 cmBroad Walk, Harlow With the assistance of an Arts Council of Great Britain grant the Trust provided Mason with his first major commission in 1979. Mason visited Pisani’s stone yard in Matlock where, ambitiously, he selected a three ton block of marble for carving by hand. It took him over twelve months to complete the piece. Sculptors in the early stages of their career who get offered public commissions want to showcase their talents, as future commission will depend on the first. Mason describes his ambitions as ‘a rite of passage’. He didn’t quite envisage the effort involved in making Vertex. It was originally conceived as being much bigger and was going to be sited where Gibberd’s Obelisk now stands, and Masons sculpture makes more sense in this location. Vertex, consisting of a series […]

Sep 18

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Leon Underwood 0 comments tags: Not in Anger, Self Encounter, Sower

Leon Underwood

1890 – 1975 Leon Underwood was born in London 1890 he studied at Regent Street Polytechnic, the Royal College of Art and after the First World War, the Slade School of Fine Art. He taught in London art schools, Ralph Brown was one of his students and Henry Moore attended his drawing classes. He was also a writer and engraver and founder of the art magazine, The Island. His work often shows the influences of non European and tribal art. There are some good examples of his output in the British sculpture galleries of Tate Britain. He died in 1975. Works Not in AngerBronze cast 1975 (stone version 1925)60x75x45 cmThe Stow shopping precinct Purchased by the Trust in1979 this is a larger version of the stone carving (at the Gibberd Garden). Although the clenched fist is associated with the symbol of Republican solidarity with those suffering in the Spanish Civil War, Underwood saw it standing as part of a greater peace movement. Michael Chase, who joined the Trust in 1980 (former director of the Minories Gallery), secured the piece from the Underwood family. He wrote that Underwood “dreamed of a giant anti-war memorial on the cliff-top above Dover…the fist is […]

Sep 18

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Mary Spencer Watson 0 comments tags: Chiron

Mary Spencer Watson

1913 – 2006 Born London 1913, daughter of the painter George Spencer Watson. She studied at the Slade, the Royal Academy and the Central Schools of Art in London and with the sculptor Ossip Zadkine in Paris. She worked and lived in Purbeck, Dorset.Her home, Dunshay Manor, was built over a rich seam of Purbeck marble, a material which she used in her sculpture.Her three months with Zadkine encouraged her to use the chisel leaving the surface of sculpture rough and she took time in Paris to study the Medieval carvings in Cluny.She was contacted by Gibberd for two public works, Chiron teaching the Young Hero is one of them. She loved the four symbols for the Evangelists and made sculptures of these for the North porch of Wells Cathedral.She had a major retrospective in Salisbury in 2004 and died in March 2006, age 92. Works Chiron Portland Stone carved1953 ht 150 cmForecourt of Moot House, The Stow Commissioned by Harlow Development Corporation to commemorate the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth ii and afterwards vested in the Harlow Art Trust.The Moot House was the HQ of the Town’s first Community Association of Mark Hall and Netteswell. See extract from Art […]

Sep 18

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Tim Shutter 0 comments tags: Magic Jumping Bean

Tim Shutter

‘Two main qualities seem to sum up my sculpture: My commitment to using stone, and my desire to make works that include a sense of fun. This has often been achieved by playing with the expectations of the material.For instance, I have carved hard sandstone coping into rows of soft cushions which could be sat upon whilst waiting for a bus, I have also given a heavy stone bench wings to fly and put a stone sofa on a stone raft. Other approaches have included changes in scale such as caving a monumental granite cake, or the play on context such as placing indoor furniture outside. By these methods I attempt to give the sculptures a presence and a sense of frivolity. Much of my work has been for public sites, so my subject matter is deliberately made accessible to appeal to as many people as possible. They are site specific, tune into local references and they are frequently functional.When I left Art College I worked and trained for several years as a stonemason. I then moved back towards sculpture by working as an assistant to Anish Kapoor, and occasionally as an assistant to Antony Gormley. I also completed an […]

Sep 18

by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Jesse Watkins 0 comments tags: Pisces

Jesse Watkins

Watkins was born in 1899 in Gravesend, Kent. He trained for the Navy while attending part time art classes at Goldsmiths College and Chelsea School of Art. He was commissioned for a series of abstracts by Exhall Grange School in Coventry and a work, Flying Fish, similar to the Pisces but in stainless steel for the Royal London Free Hospital in Hampstead. He was working on a series of abstract sculptures based on the Zodiac in the seventies. Works Pisces1973Painted steel213 x 200 x 200 cmWater Garden, Town Park Pisces was exhibited in his retrospective of sculpture, paintings and graphics in the newly opened Playhouse. It was shown in maquette form in the gallery as the work was too large for the interior, it was installed in the Water Gardens, in Harlow Town Centre. Sited in the water garden of the Town Park (formerly a watercress bed) it so well suited its surroundings that it was retained by Harlow District Council after the exhibition.It has become an icon for Harlow.Pisces was re-cleaned and re-site in the pond and the surrounding edges to the Water Garden cobbled, thanks to a Harlow Council initiative in the summer of 2015.See Newsletter No 24

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