Etchings and Drawings inspired by Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley
From 2018-2020 I was given the opportunity to work directly from Cliffe Castle's substantial natural history and sculpture collection resulting in a large exhibition of etchings and drawings. These will be shown in the museum until September 26th 2021. The work is a homage to this captivating collection.
"After making close studies of the exhibits I began to forge more personal narratives, revisiting those that held the deepest fascination. For example in the reworked etching of the horse and groom maquette the figures were melded to create a hybrid being rearing against an unknown force, a mythological invention both powerful and vulnerable.
The wonderful kiwi from the Natural History room also wandered into a few pieces where it became a presence not necessarily of raven-like doom, but at least of fate, hence he listens at the bed of the lying figure in The Wake as though waiting for the last breath, or becomes a shadow-like premonition in Prophet in the Wilderness.”
(Introductory quote from the museum)
"After making close studies of the exhibits I began to forge more personal narratives, revisiting those that held the deepest fascination. For example in the reworked etching of the horse and groom maquette the figures were melded to create a hybrid being rearing against an unknown force, a mythological invention both powerful and vulnerable.
The wonderful kiwi from the Natural History room also wandered into a few pieces where it became a presence not necessarily of raven-like doom, but at least of fate, hence he listens at the bed of the lying figure in The Wake as though waiting for the last breath, or becomes a shadow-like premonition in Prophet in the Wilderness.”
(Introductory quote from the museum)
