The exhibition was opened by the Mayor of Worthing and had over 40 works displayed both inside and outdoors. Worthing Jon Edgar location of works leaflet Worthing Museum 2010 exhibition interpretation leaflet
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Memory and Desire Film
Possibly the only time I’m ever going to appear in a principal cast list after Nick Rhodes… http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=9F210A5C18bbd27D1CYtWJ498BC0 The sitting took place in North London in 2008 following an approach from the artist. This is the second of two bronzes created from the terracotta original.
Portrait Sculpture – a neglected form?
see here: ‘Jackdaw article Dec 2009 ‘Portrait Sculpture – A neglected form?’ for subscriptions to this publication for the visual arts: http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/
Lilac Time CD album cover
New CD cover for the Memory and Desire album by Stephen Duffy and The Lilac Time, using the fired terracotta head.
Oxmarket Open Sculpture Competition 2009 – Judge’s notes
The works I see selected for final exhibition have a real breadth. Technical competence and freshness is much in evidence. My considerations have been warmth and sensitivity, honest observation, true credit to the base materials used and the mass conveyed, along with rigour tempered by ambiguity. I make no apologies for the prizes going to […]
Alan Thornhill – Thoughts on the Aesthetic Experience and On Creativity (2008)
Techniques The most important techniques are those devised by the individual for dealing with self consciousness, dominant intentionality, insidious predisposition toward the familiar and the nameable, fear of failure, dependence on achieving acceptable results, all of which undermine and debilitate the process. Originality Originality consists in authenticity; is work which originates from inside the maker, […]
Duncan Carse – South Georgia
The first bronze of Duncan Carse is now on permanent display at South Georgia Museum, South Atlantic, following a purchase appeal co-ordinated by the South Georgia Association. The role of Duncan Carse in the Grahamland Peninsular Expedition was recognised by the Silver Polar Medal and clasp in 1939. He was awarded a second clasp in 1982 […]
New film – Spirit in Mass: Alan Thornhill
SPIRIT IN MASS: Journey into Sculpture is a 40 minute documentary which charts Alan Thornhill’s unconventional journey into sculpture. Discovering himself to be by nature an improviser yet committed to the time-honoured language and sensuous values of sculpture, he devised a way of working which embraced spontaneity and the unforeseen. This approach has inspired sculpture students […]
Responses: Carvings and Claywork
Responses – Carving and Claywork (2003-2008) is a new publication priced £10 from Hesworth Press and available through Amazon, West Dean or from https://jonedgar.co.uk The foreword is by Sir Roy Strong, who sat for the artist in 2005. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Responses-Carvings-Claywork-Sculpture-2003-2008/dp/0955867509/
quotes I warm to
quotes I warm to you are trying to intellectualise something – desparately. And you are wasting your time… That’s not a way of understanding; to make a mini-logic. It’s a visual world. You want to turn everything into an intellectual game. A visual world is totally different. Remember what I’ve said now. (But) people do […]
notes on Fittleworth
Fittleworth seems remarkably rich in its broad cultural connections for a parish so small and sleepy. Around 1199 there is mention of a bridge crossing the River Rother close to Ernulf the Fisherman’s land. As a congregating point, an inn came into existence. The Swan maintains it has been serving ale in the same inn since 1382. More […]
Henry Moore’s Intro to Giovanni Pisano By Michael Ayrton; Thames and Hudson (1969)
FIRST TIME I saw the sculptures of Giovanni Pisano was in 1925 when I visited Pisa on a travelling scholarship from the Royal College of Art. I must only have been able to admire, or try to admire, the sculptures on the facade and those on the top of the Baptistry, with struggle and effort, […]
Writings of Harry Everington 1929-2000
Preamble: A few words are perhaps necessary to introduce the contents of this book. The background, from which I have drawn my material, is the Frink School of Figurative Sculpture, where in recent years I have been privileged to teach and learn. In the maelstrom of British Art Education over the past fifty years, there […]
Notes on carving Wight Man, Feb 2006
This block was difficult to start; it had provenance, value and rarity, which has made the process of carving harder. Most of my blocks are mean lumps, perhaps damaged and rejected by others, bartered or found. That it had been sitting waiting for 50 years just added to that pressure – can one do it […]