Soldered brass, 12 x 10 x 5, 2017. The title joins a god and a king. Genesis makes Nimrod a mighty hunter and king of Shinar, and scholars identify him with Marduk, the Babylonian god. One wing lifts a spade high, as a victor lifts a weapon or a standard. The spade is Marduk’s symbol: … Continue reading Marduk the Nimrod
Soldered brass, 17 x 13 x 13, 2017. Fame is traditionally a winged figure who sounds a trumpet, and the sculpture shows her at it. A feathered wing spreads at the right, and a long horn rises steeply from beside what reads as her head. The horn is the longest member of the work, roughly … Continue reading The Palace of Fame
Soldered brass, stone, wood, 14.5 x 12 x 7, 2017. Agony and Ecstasy inherits its structure from Alfred Stevens’s Valour and Cowardice for the Wellington Monument. Stevens stacks an allegory vertically: a plinth, a vanquished figure wedged at its corner, and the victor enthroned above, leaning out with a raised staff. The moral relation between … Continue reading Agony and Ecstasy
Soldered brass, 17 x 15 x 6, 2016. The title names a sculpture park, an outdoor museum named for the mountain beside it, where monumental works stand against the landscape. This sculpture is small enough to carry by the handle on its top. It riffs on a steel sculpture 5.5 metres tall that was unveiled … Continue reading Storm King
Soldered brass, 8 x 7 x 8, 2016. A domed lid carries a pipe that bends over at its end, which reads as a still. Below it a cylinder on small feet, plated and pierced for bolts, with two tap-like fittings under the lid, reads as a spirit safe. Bushmills is a distillery whose licence … Continue reading The Taste of Bushmills
