Philip Hearsey

British Contemporary Sculpture by Phiip Hearsey - A Long Way III

2017

Wall mounted bronze Series of variations Stamped with monogram signature and numbered 677A The sculpture is supplied with everything required for hanging. Weight 11.7kgs

Bronze on a slate composite base Stamped with monogram signature and uniquely numbered 812 The natural bronze edges and highly polished. Without protection they will tarnish quite r...

2 parts bronze independently rotating on a Cumbrian slate base Series of one-off variations Stamped with monogram signature and uniquely numbered 391F The outer ring is solid bronze...

Bronze on a Laburnum wood base Series of unique variations Stamped with monogram signature and uniquely numbered 665A The main patinated body is heavily textured and derived from ero...

Bronze on a slate composite base Unique variation in a series Stamped with monogram signature and numbered 275B Natural bronze has a translucent golden patination before lacquering t...

Series of individual variations Bronze freely rotating on a spalted beech base Stamped with monogram signature and uniquely numbered 579A Rotation allows...

What would a perfect future look like and how would it be represented for future generations to examine and question? What would we choose to preserve from high art and mainstream culture? How will our successes be depicted and will we account for our failures? Perhaps our contemporary mythologies will replace the ancient Greek and Roman gods and goddesses of yore with superheroes, extra-terrestrials and science fiction characters devastated by technological advancement. Brandon Vickerd works in a realm of unreality where the perfect future is chimeral, where there are more questions asked than answers presented. In his recent pieces currently displayed at Art Mûr, we find skeletons of humans and primates. They are dressed in spacesuits, as seen in Monument to the First American in Space, or trailing tentacles and zebra mussels in The Sub-Mariner. The pieces are evocative, and somehow manage to come across as realistic; incongruous bodies and objects have been integrated into fluid forms. Generally, there is either a lot of movement (literal as well as implied) in Vickerd’s work, or a stasis, as seen with these beings frozen in action. They are unabashed in their theatricality. The polished, vibrant sculptures in these galleries represent a kind of death and memorialization. The forms are stripped of flesh and dressed in protective suits (potentially after the implied catastrophes), which appear either manufactured or suggestive of the organic. Ghost Rider...

What would a perfect future look like and how would it be represented for future generations to examine and question? What would we choose to preserve from high art and mainstream cu...

Bronze, Limited Edition 2 of 9 "Eclat de Pierre" by Nicola Godden is a captivating original figurative bronze sculpture that captivates viewers with its graceful elegance and dynami...

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Diver Bronze sculpture 240 x 100 x 60 cm 94.5” x 39.4” x 23.62” Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Fl...

Diver Bronze sculpture 230 x 100 x 50 cm 90.6” x 39.4” x 19.7” Available in RED & BLACK painted patinas Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kostis Georgiou studied stage scenery in Flor...