Quartz
will be open to the public from October 7th - 17th, inclusive, from
11.00am until 5.00pm.
Last
year's exhibition sold over £35,000 of work at prices from £200
to £2000.
Artists
& Sculptors
We
always welcome the chance to look at work by new artists and sculptors
for consideration (open to artists living in the South West). If you are interested in taking part in the Quartz
exhibition in October 2009, please get in touch by clicking on the
e-mail link here.
Tell us a bit about yourself and if possible include a JPEG image
of your work. Alternatively, ask for an application and Conditions
of Entry form to be sent to you.
Charlotte
Lampard, Curator
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Richard Brown
Richard Brown is sculptor of some repute in his native Scotland, winning several awards, and producing large scale stone-sculptures for major commercial clients and smaller works for gallery sale world wide. Since moving to Bristol in 2000 he has concentrated on smaller scale conceptual work in mixed media. His recent work, while dealing with serious topics, is usually humorous and accessible to a wide audience.
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Richard Brown
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Toni Davey
The idea of the flat plane appearing to gradually come to life by moving from two dimensions into three, whilst losing none of its original surface is a concept that fascinates me.
Recent pieces have been made from a single sheet of paper with nothing added or taken away.
'To draw, to cut, to score, to fold, to weave, two dimensions into three: manipulating light and shadow, the surface evolves'.
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Toni Davey
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Melanie Deegan
My work is strongly influenced by the desire to capture movement. The challenge is not just to suggest the action of an animal or figure in motion but also to give them a sense of purpose. Sometimes this can be as simple as trying to indicate the intention, the feeling of energy contained in the muscles prior to the realisation of activity.
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Melanie Deegan
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Jenni
Dutton
Jenni
Dutton uses the subject of the female body and clothing to work with
the concept of absence and transformation, exploring associations
around memory through her mixed media constructions.
"I
always loved dressing up and stories where the dress is evidence of
transformation. I love clothes, old clothes and the memory associated
with cast-off dresses," she explains.
"I
started to make suspended forms as dresses, the dress being the skin
that had absorbed the life of the body once inside it. I work quite
intuitively, the process of the making often dictating the development
of the piece. None of thedresses can be worn."
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Jenni Dutton
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Annie Field
Annie Field spent many years as an interior designer. The Sculpture Academy, near the Tate Modern, then beckoned. She trained there for four years. She is a member of the South West Sculpture Academy and the Chelsea Arts Society. The National Maritime Museum has just commissioned a sculpture portrait, amongst many others. She is also a passionate painter and photographer.
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Annie Field
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Felicia Fletcher
Felicia creates conceptual sculpture in bronze, stone, wood and scagliola, reviving the use of this material which is virtually indistinguishable from marble. She produces timeless, flowing forms which seem to resonate deep within the observer in a synergy of balance and harmony.
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Felicia Fletcher
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Bruce Kirby
Bruce Kirby worked as a geologist before training at Weymouth College of Stonemasonry and becoming a stonecarver. Throughout his life a love of rock-climbing on mountains and sea cliffs has been an inspiration; both in terms of the marvels encountered and the rock architecture. The contrast between a single precise chisel mark created in a second and the vast time scale associated with the creation of rocks and the landscape provide him with endless scope, motivation and ideas for his work.
The Earth Cubes are part of a series based upon folded quartz veins seen in Nepal. Although they are based on a small scale geological features, their form also mimics large scale features such as rivers seen in satellite imagery.
The Cubes draw ones thoughts towards the enormous volume of rocks beneath our feet that make up the earths crust.
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Bruce Kirby
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Ian Marlow
Works by Ian Marlow explore the way nature effectively creates a balance that is visually stunning. These are the forms that surround us everywhere yet which few of us have the time to see or appreciate - the seed pod sprouting, the tip of the vine that twists and curls, the fish as its swims, the bird in flight, the tree as it bends in the wind, the blade of grass weighted down with rain and that drop of water just about to fall from its tip.
Ian's latest series of sculptures are his way of providing us all with the opportunity to share the wondrous simplicity of this natural phenomena, and yet they express much more than just balance; they are works of incredible form and beauty.
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Ian Marlow
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Thrussell & Thrussell
Artist Metalsmiths: Gary and Thomas Thrussell (Father and son)
We work in mild steel, copper and stainless steel using forging welding and sheet metal working processes. We produce public art and our own collections of organic sculptures, working from our studios in the heart of Bodmin Moor. Our public sculptures are influenced by local heritage and culture. We feel ownership by the community is essential and very important in our work. We are also influenced by the art Nouveau period for designing our sculptures, this connects with nature and comes out mostly in our insect sculpture which we study in great detail. Our working process starts off with the study of the subject followed by pattern making and model making in 3D especially in the heritage work. Our work can be found nation wide in the towns of Brentwood, Braintree, Bodmin, Basingstoke, Colchester, Camborne, Coventry, Halstead, Maldon, St Austell, Saltash. They are found in public spaces from Natural History Museums to the Eden Project cycle trail, our largest piece is in Brentwood town centre nr London. We have just completed two large insects for Basingstoke council.
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Thrussell & Thrussell
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Zac
Zac's work is inspired by nature. He feels that Nature in its most basic form comprises energy. It is this energy that Zac feels we are inextricabley linked to, economically, socially and spiritually. Whilst making the work, Zac is very aware of our ever increasing appetite and consumption of our natural environment’s resources. As a result of this exploitation, Zac feels we have become divorced from nature. He hopes that by fusing the mediums he uses, manmade with organic, that the viewer will not only be inspired and reconnect with nature but will also be reminded of our precarious symbiotic relationship that we have with our natural environment.
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Zac
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Clare Trenchard
When I make a sculpture it is the essence of the thing I am trying to capture rather than a likeness.
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Clare Trenchard
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