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Introduction
I began making sculpture as a teenager at art school, veering about, echoing the styles of artists such as Michelangelo, Rodin, Manzł and Dalwood. The light went on, so to speak, in 1967. Quite suddenly, I grasped the organising principle of a sculpture exemplified in five large works, produced and exhibited over the following year, and illustrated here.
The five works illustrated were made up of 13 large objects arranged in groups. But the sculptural purpose was to use those objects to point past the groups they made up - towards a sculptural model or concept in the viewer’s mind. They also pointed down, through the floor plane (figures X, Y and Z).
Images
A family of large sculptures fabricated in polyester resin with fibreglass and sprayed using nitro-cellulose auto paints.
Inclines (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 168 x 104 x 244 cm. Photo: Tony Allen.
Chevrons (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 56 x 109 x 180 cm. Photo: Tony Allen.
Three Piece (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 122 x 122 x 122. Photo: Tony Allen
One Across (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 185 x 264 x ~120 cm. Photo: Tony Allen.
Inclining Cross (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 86 x 264 x 175 cm. Photo: Tony Allen.
I began making sculpture as a teenager at art school, veering about, echoing the styles of artists such as Michelangelo, Rodin, Manzł and Dalwood. The light went on, so to speak, in 1967. Quite suddenly, I grasped the organising principle of a sculpture exemplified in five large works, produced and exhibited over the following year, and illustrated here.
The five works illustrated were made up of 13 large objects arranged in groups. But the sculptural purpose was to use those objects to point past the groups they made up - towards a sculptural model or concept in the viewer’s mind. They also pointed down, through the floor plane (figures X, Y and Z).
Images
A family of large sculptures fabricated in polyester resin with fibreglass and sprayed using nitro-cellulose auto paints.
Inclines (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 168 x 104 x 244 cm. Photo: Tony Allen.
Chevrons (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 56 x 109 x 180 cm. Photo: Tony Allen.
Three Piece (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 122 x 122 x 122. Photo: Tony Allen
One Across (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 185 x 264 x ~120 cm. Photo: Tony Allen.
Inclining Cross (1967)
Fibreglass reinforced polyester, nitro cellulose paint, 86 x 264 x 175 cm. Photo: Tony Allen.