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the tilted vertical either in single or grouped units.
Three sculptors each of an individual character were
holding one-man shows at West End galleries. Robert
Clatworthy at the Waddington Galleries remains
most firmly in the memory as the sculptor of a massive
bull seen at the Open Air Sculpture Exhibition in
Holland Park several years ago. Three smaller versions
dated 1953 are in the current showing but the later
works are of standing, seated and walking figures.
There is an expressionist distortion to the modelling of
the shapes that paradoxically conveys an effect that is
painterly, as if one of Francis Bacon's men had walked
out of the canvas and solidified on the floor before us.
Unrest is the attribute suggested by these summary
clottings of bronze and plaster.
Genghis Khan won for him one of the travel bursaries. Derek Carruthers showing mobile sculpture at the
Roland Piche using fibre glass, plaster and cement Drian Galleries is ingenious and astonishing. Nothing
fondu elaborates on the pipe shape to form oddly is as it seems to be at first glance. You push a wooden
animate tripods within a space frame. Tim Scott makes ball and it rotates with its opposite number. what has
wheels from wood and balls from synthetic materials one colour at rest shows another in movement. A
without much cohesive purpose. spinning sphere causes a painted screen to change its
Male and female in complementary cut-out steel and composition when for a second it and the circular
plastic 'steps' provide William Tucker's works with an surface are on a common plane. Movement causes new
interesting variety while Isaac Witkin alternates between associations and the result is wonderment.
painted propellor shapes and the erect convolutions of Diana Guest is the daughter of an Englishman; she
fibreglass snake forms. Derrick Woodham emerges as lives in Paris where she carves the birds, animals and
the most subtly colour-conscious artist of the nine insects of which a selection were on view at the
with a fibreglass drum setting up chromatic harmonies. O'Hana Gallery. She has a love for wild creatures
1 Weightlessness is the keynote of the exhibition. For and her carvings reflect a direct idealization of the
Eduardo Paolozzi
Wittgenstein 1he soldier the colours have the effect of emphasising the light and natural form in the character of the material.
Serigraph synthetic nature of the matter. one more step in the Seen for a short time before it was taken to be bonded
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march of painting and sculpture together as a joint to hardboard and shipped to Australia, the huge enamel
2 medium. The one exception is Christopher Sanderson mural by Sidney Nolan for the Reserve Bank of
Arnold van Praag
The Dwarf whose Rome 1962 is reproduced. He works in Australia's new building in Melbourne is a work of
38 X 29 in. staggering presence. Composed of sixty-six panels that
Roland. Browse and Delbanco aluminium with a feeling for the tension inherent in
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