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3 bursaries for foreign travel. These awards and indeed
Diana Guest
Bull the exhibition entitled 'The New Generation: 1965'
Marble represent the follow-up to the painting show held last
O'Hana Gallery
year under the sponsorship of the Peter Stuyvesant
4 Foundation. These six artists who won the awards had
Derek Carruthers
Four through steel tunnel 1964 also each a work purchased by the Foundation for its
Steel & Wood painted permanent collection and loan to public galleries.
30 in. high
Onan Galleries Sculpture one should say at once is the elastic term
used to describe objects constructed or assembled and
which can be displayed free standing and occupying
independent space on the floor. But there the similarity
with the art of Praxiteles ends and an affinity with
something else begins. For the first visual impact of
the exhibits is that their colouring in assertive brash
brightness destroys whatever three-dimensional form
they have to shape an area that becomes viewed

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Piper. Ceri Richards. Cecil Stephenson. John Tunnard. against the wall as the flat surface of a conventional
and Ashley Havinden and Victor Reinganum. painting might. David Annesley paints his steel strips
The exhibition was timely and must have given a curved or flat like enlargement of campaign medal
nostalgic pleasure to Sir Herbert Read who called the ribbons. His constructions show the ever-present
group 'A Nest of Gentle Artists·. All of them it is sure influence among younger sculptors of Anthony Caro
must have been happy to assist in the tribute to him though his forms have a closer concentration.
for no other writer has done more for the cause of Michael Bolus also shows the Caro touch but his
vanguard art in Britain than this gentle poet. curvilinear patterns in painted aluminium sheet have
A group exhibition of a different character was on cleanly economical outlines that almost seem to tempt
view at the Whitechapel Gallery where its director, the wind to destroy them. Philip King is the best-known
Bryan Robertson. selected an anthological nine of the nine and his cut-out tent form that he likes so
sculptors· work for participation in a competition for much, with an elaborate 'head dress', aptly titled
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