Adam
Title: Adam
Medium: Polished bronze on marble base
Size: 55cm high x 50cm wide (22" x 20")
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PHFA Ref: PH-05047679
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Adam Description
My bronze works began in the foundry section at Camberwell College of Art back in 2003, where I worked the classic 'Gun Metal' bronze. I am always looking for the beauty of tone and form in the subjects I wish to create and haveI found an abundance of these elements in the models I have been fortunate enough to have worked with.
Unlike the carving process, which is almost the complete reverse, this process allows me a doorway into my own practice which is a combination of all the studies I have done this far.
This work was modelled on the 9 times (Leeds based) UK's Grand Masters Karate Champion Matt Price.
Material: Polished bronze on marble base. Dimensions (55cm x 50cm x 18cm)
Edition 2 of 6 - Price: £9,000.00
The fragmented torso has been a subject which I return to again and again as I find such a resonance to myself and my practice as a sculptor, for I feel that in one way or another we are all just fragments of a greater whole. Rodin puts it well when he says "within the fragment therein lies the truth of the whole" and it is easy for us to see that in his works.
Back in the early part of this millennium, I was fortunate enough to work with some of the best physical examples of Human beings as I could have ever hoped for. My subjects were Olympic athletes and they undoubtedly do have some of the most finely tuned bodies that any artist wishing to study the body could hope to be able to work with.
The sculpture here at Peter Hill Fine Art is a polished bronze torso and is my very first athlete I worked with. Back then he was the UK's Grand Masters Karate Champion, 6 times over, he is Sensei Matt Price from Leeds. He now has, even more, wins under his Black belt and continues to dominate the floor whenever he is competing.
The position I chose for this work is one of compressed power, and the choice to fragment the work in such a way is to capture something of this amazing sportsman whilst reflecting something of the classical works we might find in the British Museum. The 'Keyhole' in his arm on the side of the piece is a reference to what we hold hidden within, all locked away inside, only to be opened with the key which we only give to very few people. In this instance, it might be the key to his success. It also has a link to the title 'Adam' as this was, in fact, the work which was my own key to all the other sculptures I created for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games.
I continue to be fascinated by the fragment in art and the power held within that fragment and am currently working with even more amazing people as I try to understand the world we live in through them and my work as a sculptor.