Royal Academy - Round 2

All set for delivery of selected artwork for Round 2 of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014. I don't know if I'm more nervous about driving across London when there is a tube strike on than I am about waiting to hear if the work will get the final judges approval! Fingers crossed!

Trails with Tales

After 5 months of carving, the sculpture trail is having its official opening today. A guided tour will start at 2pm - 3pm, If anyone is in the area call in or make a point to visit this wonderful park in Maidstone.

Echoes in the Memory

I was fortunate enough to have a piece of work selected for a group exhibition in Hampshire at the ‘Garden Gallery’. The gallery’s proprietor, Rachel Bebb MA, FRSA. made both my assistant Michael and myself very welcome in the wonderful grounds of her garden. It is a perfect setting for showing sculpture and I can only imagine once all the plants and trees have flowered it will look even more delightful. This will be the first showing of the Portland sculpture I made at the later part of 2013 called ‘Time Capsule for a Sculpture’.

I also installed another piece of Kilkenny into the longer running body of sculptures on display as part of the summer exhibition event. The opening of the group show ‘Echoes in the Memory’ will open on the 10^th May and will run until the 19^th July. (The work in the background is called ‘Lightline, May 2013’ by Suzanne Redstone ARBS).
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Rock and Roll!!

Time has come to tackle the big one! After getting the template and profile sorted for the sculpture, I was able to see where the majority of stone was going to be removed. Establishing how best to split the stone is essential as it allows me to possibly end up with a few good big sizeable off-cuts to make further sculptures from.
Unfortunately, after getting a few more drill holes into the next face, my £500 SDS Max drill sparked and stopped working. The next drill I used was less powerful and is an SDS Plus. This drill wasn't up to the job on such a hard stone, with one drill bit snapping and a second bending under pressure!! It proved to be 'Not a good day in the office'.
    

Under wraps!

Preparation has been under way for the delivery of some sculptures for an exhibition. The work is forming part of a selected group show at the The Garden Gallery: Rookery Lane Broughton Stockbridge Hampshire SO20 8AZ  Summer Exhibition: Echoes in the Memory 'Echoes in the Memory', will bring together a group of artists who will consider through their work how memories and personal histories can be expressed affirmatively through sculpture, cherishing the past and conveying joy and hope for the future. The exhibition will open on 10 May 2014 and run until 19 July, 2014 on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 11 - 5, or by arrangement.

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