For sculpturestreet 2005, Artists were invited to exhibit pieces loosely themed around the topic of ‘together (ness)’, to be positioned in front gardens in the street.
Exhibitors this year will include: Chris & Joe Lang
Chris Lang studied at South East Essex College taking Foundation Fine Art and HND Fine Art courses after retiring from a career in education. He is now able to devote more time to making paintings, sculptures and photographs and indulging his lifelong passion for art.
Joe Lang is currently about to complete A levels in Fine Art, Photography and Film Studies at South East Essex Sixth Form College after which he is looking forward to a globe trotting gap year taking photographs before going on to University. He recently won a first prize awarded by BECTA at the National Film Institute for one of his photographs and intends to make photography and film his career. Contact email: chris@pinkpoliceman.co.uk / joe@pinkpoliceman.co.uk Tom Penney
Tom’s first recollections of Metal Sculpture are from being 5 years old while sitting on the floor of his Grandfather’s blacksmiths shop. He started his industrial career as a working blacksmith for 5 years and subsequently moved on to welding in all metals including Stainless Steel. Artistically he has worked in all materials. He now works mainly in metal including stainless steel and welded bronze. He welds and moulds strong, sensitive sculpture with a masterful passion and respect for these most unyielding materials. This former Blacksmith/Boat builder, a West Country man, draws on his life experience and from working around the world. His work can be found on permanent display in Sweden, with its own dramatic climatic changes, and also amid the vast skies and harsh terrain of the Falkland Islands where he worked for a number of years. Contact tel: 07944978450. email: tom@tompenney.co.uk Glenn Holman
After 11 years of adult life in dead end jobs Glenn began studying art seriously in 1988, graduating from Norwich school of art in 1991 with a degree in sculpture. He has worked as an artist and educator since then exhibiting his work widely throughout the UK. Presently studying for an MA in Fine Art Theory and Practice at Middlesex University. Contact email: gholman.sculptor@virgin.net Roderick Steward
Roderick is a sculptor who works in marble and English Limestone with traditional tools. He lives locally on foulness Island. Contact tel: 01702 218739 Gwen Simpson
African born Gwen studied at Harrow School of Art, and has worked many years as a Freelance Illustrator. Accepts commissions and has had work exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show. Gwen has worked together with Alison Bournes, producing two works for Sculpture Street. Desmond Brett
Desmond studied at Slade School of Fine Arts 1993 1999 (B.A. [Hons] Fine Art Sculpture and M.B.A. Sculpture). Exhibitions include: “Who Needs Public sculpture Anyway?” Ashton & Graham Ipswich 2005/Rural Idyll Ispwich; ‘Demarcation’ Cambridge 2004; ‘Roof Rack’ Taxi Gallery, Cambridge; ‘The Simple Truth’, Norwich Gallery 2003. Contact tel 0793 153 8 546. email: desmond_brett@hotmail.com Cliff Pearcey
Cliff Pearcey is a self-taught artist who has had eight solo shows in London and has exhibited in the Wandsworth Open Art exhibition, The Orleans House Gallery Open Exhibition in Twickenham and The Salthouse Gallery in St Ives in Cornwall. One of his pieces won first prize in the World Wildlife Fund's "Wild Trash 2000" competition at the Orleans House Gallery. He has over five hundred pieces in private collections in this country and abroad. Most of the things he uses to make his assemblages he finds in boot fairs or from beachcombing and he enjoys the challenge of rearranging interesting shapes so that they make recognisable figures or animals a sort of metamorphosis of everyday objects, making something out of the ordinary. His work is a fusion of perception and humour. Cliff recycles everyday objects and shapes that "speak", arranging them to create something out of the ordinary. Humour, observation and perception play a key part in the process it is random what is made depends on what is found. Contact tel: 07973 862 349 | 