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I am not concerned with the creating of corrugation) used with as little modification destroy weight. Colour isn't new to my
hermetic abstract works, but with non- as possible, and the factual rather than work, nor new to sculpture. When I was
figurative work that is the result of a expressive quality of the surface, necessitate working in bronze or plaster I was just as
powerful subjective response to things seen, an industrial finish, both as an emotive concerned about colour and light as now.
particularly banal things, combined with a response and as a method of controlling Although colour contributes very significantly
dialogue with art, so that there is a strong light. I don't want colour to be expressive to the emotive quality, I've not seen a
though ambiguous interaction between them. separately from material or structure. This sculpture where altering colour would be as
My increasing response to industrially is probably why I don't use exotic colours. radical a change of meaning as changing
produced raw materials (channel, angle, I am not interested in using colour to shape or structure. WILLIAM TURNBULL

William Turnbull Corrugations (capable of extention),
1967, galvanized sheets 2 ft x 6 ft
Waddington Galleries