Harlow Sculpture

Mar 29

by Admin in Allan Sly, Artists, Artists M - Z 0 comments tags: Runaway Rotavator, Sculpture

Allan Sly

Allan Sly was born in Windsor in 1951. After a course in City and Guilds sculpture he attended London Art School from 1971-4 and then the Royal Academy 1974-77. He is a senior lecturer at Wimbledon School of Art and became a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992. He is well known for his large public figurative work such as the bronze Window cleaner, commissioned by Capital House which stands at three metres in height outside Edgware Road Tube station, his four and a half metre high Newmarket Stallion on the local roundabout and his Pearl Diver for P&O. Works Runaway Rotavator 1994 iron filled resin 183 x 122 x 244 cm Pinnacles, near the roundabout at the end of Elizabeth Way. Sly submitted ideas for the sculpture to be sited outside Harlow Sports centre. The work was commissioned in 1991 by the Art Trust from the four maquettes offered. The work was re-sited at the redevelopment of the Sports Centre into housing. Sly often uses ambitious compositions in his work which require skilful engineering to balance. His Surrey Scholar, commissioned for the Golden Jubilee 0f 2002, in Guildford High Street and the rearing stallion with his […]

Dec 04

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Nov 19

by Admin in Artists, Nick Hornby 0 comments tags: Twofold

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby, born in 1980, is a rising, young sculptor living and working in London. He has received degrees from the Slade School of Art at University College London and Chelsea School of Art. He has exhibited in the UK, the US, Switzerland, Greece and India, including Tate Britain, Southbank Centre, The Fitzwilliam Museum in the UK; and Eyebeam and The Museum of Arts and Design in New York. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, and featured in Dazed, Wired, and Time Out, among others. Hornby’s sculptures emerge from the convergence of a postmodern historical perspective and cutting-edge digital technology. Works Twofold Cor-ten Steel Harlow Science Park, working with the Harlow Art Trust, has commissioned a new sculpture to be created as part of the first phase of landscaping work on the new development. This is to be sited between the first two buildings on the Park which will commence construction in May 2018 – a 30,000 square foot multi-tenanted office building for science and tech companies and a 15,000 square foot Medical Technology Innovation Centre for Anglia Ruskin University. Harlow Art Trust has appointed British sculptor Nick Hornby to design a new work […]

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 26

by Admin in Diane Maclean 0 comments tags: Ripple

Diane Maclean

Born 1939 London, parents Scottish. 1956-9 studied modern languages at University College, London. 1980-5 studied art at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design. Initial works in wood and stone, specialising in large outdoor pieces. Since then mainly working in coloured steel from her home in St Albans. She has works at University of Surrey (Triple Ripple), Jesus College, Cambridge, and Keele University; also at Chelmer Valley Park and Ride, Essex, her sculpture is mainly based in the Home Counties. Working as an environmental artist she produced a night time walk with Malcolm Innes and music by Bob Pegg and natural sounds for the Scottish Forestry Commission. She exhibited a work called Open Book, a large steel diptych, on the Promenade at Fitzwilliam,Cambridge 2008,inspired by a Gaelic translation. In June 2014 Open Book was gifted and unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen on her state visit to France with President Hollande. Inscribed “An open book we are writing together”. It was moved from the Ile de la Cite to a garden near the Champs Elysee. Portrait photo by Henryk Hetflaiz for the Fitzwilliam subject to copyright. Works Ripple 2004 Water Gardens, stainless steel, 850cm The work was provided by the developers […]

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