Thinking is Making: Objects in a Space
MARK TANNER SCULTPURE AWARD ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION, PRINTS AND EXHIBTIONS
EXHIBITION 1:
Standpoint Gallery, London, 2023
EXHIBITON 2:
Cross lane projects, Kendal, 2024
BACK
As a form and an idea, sculpture has always wrested control from its makers. Now, not only is sculpture slippery – both within and without; vital and inert; emergent yet refusing definition – it’s also expensive to make, often requiring access to costly education, materials and space.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, 'Thinking is Making: Objects in a Space’ assembled voices of leading figures of contemporary British sculpture as they examined the relationship between the object and its maker within this mediated field
Dr. Jon Wood traces the influence of sculptures and sculptors who have defined the form in recent decades. An illustrated conversation between the award’s winners from 2013 to 2023 – Lee Holden, Rosie Edwards, Dean Kenning, Olivia Bax, Anna Reading, Frances Richardson, Beth Collar, Megan Broadmeadow, Kate Lyddon and Iain Hales – illuminated the development of diverse sculptural practices, locating sculpture in a space defined by both volumes of creativity and a dearth of access.
And finally, a roundtable discussion between judges Lisa Le Feuvre, Phyllida Barlow, Hew Locke and Mike Nelson speculated on the future of the award, now entering its third decade, as it asks: Who are sculptors today? And what will they make?
The THINKING IS MAKING Publication was made to celebrate a second decade of artists to be awarded the Mark Tanner Sculputre Award. The team behind the award, and MIKE TAYLOR authored the book with publication by Black Dog Press features an interivew with me and several images of my work.
There are also limited edition lithographs availible to purcahse, made as part of a series produced by MTSA winners from 2013 to 2023, all of which were printed in collaboration with @pauperspress.
A review of the Kendal Exhibition can be found by visiting Corridor 8:
https://corridor8.co.uk/article/mark-tanner-sculpture-award-thinking-is-making/
For the exhibitions I produced three new works:
Putto’s Playtime
2024
Kinetic sculpture
dimensions variable (approx 1m x 1m x 2.5h)
Polystyerene, fibrglasscolumn, paint, pigment, tissue paper, jesmonite, wire, mirrorball rotator motor.
Diamagnetism
2023
Lithograph
2023
Child of Fulgur
2023
Sculpture,
45 x 15 x 15cm
Polystyrene, jesmonite, paint, pigments, led lights, mirrored acrylic & 3d printed filament