Terry Stringer New work Seeing twice
15.02.23 – 11.03.23
Terry Stringer
New work Seeing twice
An exhibition at Webb’s, Wellington
To view a sculpture is to see it from different aspects. The meaning of a piece is found in the totality of this experience. Here, I change the images so that different ideas exist back-to-back around the sculptural mass. One idea can comment on the other, suggesting a narrative.
from left:
1 Terry Stringer Green Man (maquette)
2022 bronze, edition of 2 280 × 70 × 90mm
2 Terry Stringer The Street (maquette)
2021 bronze with oil painted polychrome, edition of 3 360 × 100 × 100mm
3 Terry Stringer Egyptian Child (maquette)
2022
Bronze with oil painted polychrome, edition of 2 450 × 90 × 90mm
Green Man
A child’s face, fruit hanging amongst leaves, and a reaching hand follow each other around the sculpture. The Green Man is found as a stone face made up of leaves in Medieval buildings. Our world now sees the need for more sympathy between mankind and nature.
overleaf:
4 Terry Stringer Green Man 2022 bronze, edition of 2 1420 × 300 × 330mm
right: 2 Terry Stringer Green Man (maquette) 2022 bronze, edition of 10 280 × 70 × 90mm
in front:
850
behind:
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
This work steals its title from the Bronzino painting in London’s National Gallery. It takes four actors from that work, including Time as a hand planting a sprig of leaves, and Folly as a face seen in negative profile. The mysterious activity in the Bronzino painting is the model for a figure subject that compels ongoing interest. Unexplained relationships in an art piece allow for revisiting – again and again.
Mother and Child with Angels
Cut into the three quarters figure of a woman we find the head and shoulders of a child, and (behind) two angelic faces. Fertility figures are suggested here, both the pagan Goddess and her descendant, the Christian identity. The work pays homage to the sculptors through millennia who have been preoccupied by such a figure.
5 Terry Stringer Mother and Child with Angels 2022 bronze with oil painted polychrome, edition of 3
× 190 × 190mm
6 Terry Stringer Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time 2022 bronze with oil painted polychrome, edition of 2 750 × 180 × 160mm
Terry
Foreground:
7 Terry Stringer The Street 2021
bronze with oil painted polychrome, unique
790 × 160 × 150mm
Stringer in his studioprevious page
The Street
A group of figures cluster together, adjacent but independent. Although they are defined as a crowd, each is a separate individual. My sculpture remembers the paintings of the European artist Balthus of the 1930s.
Egyptian Child
Out of the standing figure of a child, a face and a gesturing hand are uncovered. It is as though one sculpture has been chiseled into so as to reveal another. So here a presence exists inside the body of another.
overleaf:
bronze
1960 × 300 × 300mm
450
8 Terry Stringer Egyptian Child 2022 with oil painted polychrome, unique right: 3 Terry Stringer Egyptian Child (maquette) 2022 bronze with oil painted polychrome, edition of 2 × 90 × 90mm
Youth and the Antique
The figure of a nude woman stands, a youthful face – vulnerable, her arms cradling her head. From behind we glean more information: a youthful face and stretching fingers are fused into her back. The classical in art can still be the foundation for figure making.
9 Terry Stringer Youth and the Antique 2022 bronze with oil painted polychrome, unique 2000 × 350 × 320mm
