Here is advance information from Wallspace on their next exhibition - Envisage: a sculptural journey, 10 March – 3 April 2010, Richard Gilbert.
This exhibition of fourteen huge and impressive heads by Richard Gilbert takes us into Easter. The fact that there are 14 sculptures refers to the traditional 'Stations of the Cross', but this is no conventional piece of religious iconography. Each of these, sometimes fearsome, heads is deliberately made using different materials, expressing separate ideas, moods and resonances. Consequently – depending on one's perspective – they may act as a challenging sculptural journey or as the basis for pilgrimage, offering an opportunity for meditation in the run-up to Easter. Whichever way they are approached this collection of heads is a tour de force.
Richard Gilbert is a practicing artist and teacher of Art. He undertook postgraduate Study in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, London during 1983-84 where he gained the Barclays Bank Painting Award. Subsequently he was an Abbey Major Scholarship in Painting at the British School a Rome 1984-85. He travelled to the United States on a Harkness Fellowship to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA Program) 1987-89. Recent one-person exhibitions include: Touching Silence - Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, 2002: Fourteen at Leominster Priory Church, Herefordshire and Fourteen at Worcester Cathedral in 2006. Passage, Beardsmore Gallery, London 2000. His work is held in public and private collections including amongst others, Arthur Anderson, Barclays Bank, Clifford Chance, Lloyds of London and Unilever, as well as in the Plymouth Art Gallery and Museum, the Contemporary Art Society, the De Beers Collection and the Victoria Art Gallery, Melbourne.
From 22 June – 16 July, Wallspace will present a world premiere of works recently acquired for the much-loved Methodist Art Collection, together with some of the existing gems. The exhibition will also be part of the City of London Festival 2010.
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The Low Anthem - Home I'll Never Be.
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