Review of Eight Sculptors and their Drawings

Many thanks to Georgina Coburn for these insightful thoughts on our exhibition of Sculptors and their Drawings. It's worth clicking to look at the full review on her new website: www.georginacoburnarts.co.uk.

Tony





Eight Sculptors and their Drawings
15th August to 13th September , Kilmorack Gallery, by Beauly.
It is always exciting to see an exhibition that expands your ideas about what a medium can be. Eight Sculptors and their Drawings featuring work by Mary Bourne, Helen Denerley, Steve Dilworth, Leonie Gibbs, Lotte Glob, Gerald Laing, Will Maclean and George Wylie combines the immediacy of an artist’s first response with the permanence, distillation, monumentality and intimacy of multidimensional sculptural objects. The best works in the show move beyond sculpture/ the Art object and are very much about the living, creative act of making and experiencing work in more than three dimensions.
etchingLotte Glob’s etching “Walking the Faroese Cliffs” (Above) with its shaded chasms and figurative rock formations jutting into the sky feels like a timeless, primordial landscape. The strength of her drawings is consistent with her approach to ceramic sculpture; a.........

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