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Carl Rowe

Carl Rowe studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating with an MA in 1985. He currently lives in Norwich and is a former Associate Professor and Course Leader in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. He is an artist member and studio holder at OUTPOST in Norwich and is also a member of the Printmakers Council. Carl Rowe has an international profile as both an artist and an academic. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK as well as in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Canada, US, Estonia, Japan, Malaysia and Egypt. In addition to studio production he has also worked on public art including billboards, print portfolios and hospital art. In 2018 Rowe was commissioned by Hospital Rooms to make work for Woodlands Mental Health Unit at Ipswich Hospital and is currently engaged in a new project with Hospital Rooms.

“My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings.

I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity. When I ease off the direct engagement with current affairs, symbols, objects and graphic devices float up from somewhere in my memory and arrange themselves in unlikely compositions.”

Carl Rowe works with both paint, sculpture and print process. The materials that I use are often intrinsically connected with the images they portray such as the work Drool, an installation made with ink containing herbs and spices from the G20 countries and the Serbian paprika used in Deprecated Location, a screen print depicting Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Recent paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints present an obsession with clay pipe fragments, hazard warnings, cylindrical containers and clouds of particulates.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Exhibited:

United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
Portugal
Ireland
Italy
Canada
United States
Estonia
Japan
Malaysia
Egypt

Commissions:

Hotel Rooms for Woodlands Mental Health Unit, Ipswich

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Paintings
Prints
Sculptures
Installations

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Mediums
Paintings on Canvas, Panel and Paper
Sculpture – Mixed Mediums, Recycled Materials and Wood

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Carl Rowe - Exceeding the Limits of the Box

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

Carl Rowe

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Tom Waugh

Tom Waugh MRSS is a British sculptor based in Somerset. He has been an associate member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2018. In 2005 he gained a First in Architectural Stone Carving at the City and Guilds of London Art School and has spent time in India studying traditional carving techniques with the temple carver Raja Saceran.

‘I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.’

Tom Waugh carves stone and marble in minute detail to mirror the discarded waste of human consumption. These objects document the tiny imprints of human use. Plastic bags, cardboard boxes and tin cans are squashed, crushed and wrinkled whilst still displaying the traces of mass production.

His carving can be seen on St Pancras Station, St Martin in the fields and St Georges Chapel, Windsor. His Sculptures are exhibited widely and can be seen in the collections of Warwick University and Gladstone’s Library.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Commissions:

St Pancras Station
St Martin in the Fields
St Georges Chapel, Windsor
Warwick University
Gladstone’s Library

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculpture

Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Medium:

Stone

Subject Matter:

Hyper-Realistic
Still Life

Tom Waugh - Stone Carving in 'Leaving' by Nicholas Dimbleby

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I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.

Tom Waugh

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Colin Rose

Colin Rose has worked as a sculptor for over thirty years. He has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe and has undertaken many public sculpture commissions.

He has undertaken public sculpture commissions for a very wide range of clients in various mediums. Colin usually works by taking a brief from the client and allowing the brief and the site to lead the design. Over the years he has worked in a variety of mediums from mirror polished stainless steel to stone. More unusually he has worked with Rope, Brick and even Coal Dust depending on the requirement of the brief.

While developing his practice Colin taught fine art and was head of Sculpture at Sunderland University from 2000 till 2006.

In addition to making sculpture, Colin Rose has a strong passion for drawing and the immediacy the process offers. The understanding gained through drawing is an important tool in the development of his designs and his working practice.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Commissions:

‘Meteor’ – Jodrell Bank
‘Rain’ – Sheffield
‘You’ – Genome Centre
‘StarBall’ – EBI, Cambridge
‘Swirl Cone’ – Carmarthen
’10 Swirl’ – Gateshead

Selected Exhibitions:

Artlanta – Atlanta USA
Earthworks – NSW, Australia
Villes et Valises – Strasbourg

Selected Awards:

National Design Award
Henry Moore Foundation
Northern Electric Visual Arts Award

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures
Paintings
Other

Sculpture Types:

External
Internal
Tabletop

Mediums:

Drawings
Paintings on Canvas
Sculpture – Metal Fabricated
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Resin
Sculpture – Other (Rope, Brick & Coal Dust)

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Louise Plant

Louise Plant creates sculpture inspired by the dynamics of movement. She works with marble, stone, bronze, cast iron and steel and has a particular feel for the direction the material wants to go. Her sculptures are visually striking with a wonderful sense of aliveness and  character.

Louise studied sculpture with the Open College of the Arts in 1992, whilst working full time as a teacher. Leaving teaching in 1994, Louise continued to study and make sculpture. She was elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2003 and became Fellow in 2014.

Louise Plant has exhibited widely including MOCA, Cheeseburn Grange, Asthall Manor, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, the Usher and Wysing Arts.

Awards include the Brian Mercer Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy, the KKV Bohuslän Scholarship, Sweden and the Year of the Artist Award, Arts Council England.

Her work is held in private collections globally and she has been commissioned by the MOD Northwood, the RNIB Loughborough, Durham County Council, Somerset County Council and the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok.

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Awards & Fellowships

Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors
Brian Mercer Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy
KKV Bohuslän Scholarship, Sweden
Year of the Artist Award from Arts Council England

Selected Commissions:

Many Private Commissions
Durham County Council
Warldorf Astoria – Bangkok
MoD – Northwood
RNIB – Loughborough
Somerset County Council – Bristol

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures
Prints

Mediums:

Drawing
Prints – Screenprints
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated
Sculpture – Stone

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Pierre Diamantopoulo

Pierre Diamantopoulo has two distinct strands to his figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

One is a cool and measured response to a profound sense of unrest. In this work, figures fly in defiance or are challenged by their environments. They ‘trippingly’ negotiate upheaval or uncertainties — each work is a balancing act, a metaphor for a precarious state of living or existence. Androgynous and anonymous human figures tilt and fall away – on and off objects that also teeter on a chaotic or shifting stage. Figures may be set free against strongly convergent lines, shapes and forms.

The other strand of Pierre Diamantopoulo’s practice is ambiguous, allegorical and atavistic, but still concerned with mercurial forces. Here, he works on impulse— mixing dark foolery, the poetic and the literary with theatre and folklore— blended with a sort of logical nonsense. This may be a voyage into the past, personal or absurd, diverted by the raw and primitive, with the wit, the mimic and maverick on board. These works are often executed with an immediate, freer hand, exploiting the texture of the raw material.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Beaux Arts – Bath
The Jerram Gallery – Sherborne
Courcoux & Courcoux – Stockbridge
The Grove Hotel – Watford
The Gallery in Cork Street
Henley Festival

Selected Commissions:

Hove Plinth – Hove, East Sussex
Middlesbrough College – West Entrance
Tees Valley Regeneration Project
Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Venice

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures
Paintings

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Metal-Cast Sculpture
Metal-Fabricated Sculpture
Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Portrait/Figurative

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Once I sat Upon a Promontory

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Flight of Langoustine

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There are two distinct strands to my figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

Pierre Diamantopoulo

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Dorothy Brook

Dorothy Brook became a sculptor in a roundabout way. She had studied Graphic Design at St Martins School of Art and worked as a freelance designer for about 10 years. When circumstances changed, a friend suggested she join a sculpture class. She loved it having no idea that she would be able to work in three dimensions having been used to seeing everything from a graphic and linear perspective.

To her surprise her graphic background gave her work a very different look. The lines and curves have to flow when viewed from every angle. The form is pared down until all that is left is its essence. Ultimately the aesthetic of the piece is the most important element.

Although Dorothy may start a sculpture with an armature and an idea of what she is going to make, it very often changes during the process. It is the sculpture that dictates where it is going and she follows, refining the lines as it progresses. Usually working in plaster as she finds it is easier to achieve the sharp edges and smooth surfaces that define her style. ‘I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.’

Dorothy Brook still loves the process as much as she did in that first sculpture class. The realisation that her drawings can and have come to life is very satisfying, not bad for a Graphic Designer!

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Wizo/Ben Uri Gallery – London
Waterstone Gallery – Birmingham
24 London – Berlin, Barcelona & Milan
Expression of Movement – Grove Hotel – Watford
Great British Sculpture Show – Hatfield House
Henley Art Festival

Selected Commissions:

Winterthur House – London
Unilever – London
Compaq – London
Maughan Library Garden, Kings College – London
WIZO – London
Hong Kong Finance – Hong Kong

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculpture
Paintings

Sculpture Types:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Resin
Painting on Paper
Pastels
Drawing

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Figurative
Landscape

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'I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.'

Dorothy Brook

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Philip Melling

Philip Melling works predominantly in metals creating an eclectic range of sculpture for exhibition, private clients and public installation.

He draws inspiration mostly from the materials he uses. Through concepts of movement and through experimentation he develops the shape of his sculptures.

His collection ‘Elements’ focuses on Earth, Air, Water and Fire and describing the reaction when those elements meet.

In developing the collection Philip Melling concentrated on using a repetitive form – curved metal bars, to generate concepts and capture the movement of elemental reactions.

Philip’s sculptures are designed to work as sculptures for the home, office and garden, as well as larger scale installations for private or public spaces.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Widely Exhibited within the UK and Internationally

Many commissions for both private, corporate and public clients made from bronze, copper, steel and stainless steel.

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectual

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Ian Turnock

Ian Turnock produces sculpture inspired by patterns and symmetry in nature. One of his main sources of inspiration are the silhouettes formed against the sky by tree foliage at different times of the year.

The spaces between the branches and leaves are just as important. A concept known in Japanese gardens as ‘Ma’, and is akin to the silences between the notes in music. Sometimes it is the gaps I am looking for just as much as the leaves themselves.

Ian Turnock has a background in graphic design which influences his exploration of form and line. Drawings and photographs are the starting point from which he develops organic, abstract and figurative sculpture.

Ian creates intricate and detailed drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut. The designs can be cut in stainless steel, corten, aluminium, copper, reclaimed steel and plywood. This transforms the drawn line into a tangible object.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Gallery 57 – Arundel
Affordable Art Fair
The Courts Garden, National Trust Wiltshire
Surface Gallery – Nottingham

Selected Commissions:

Norwegian Cruise Line
Brackenbury Square – London
The Congleton Partnership
Cunard – Queen Mary II
Private Clients in Dubai, Switzerland, California, Chicago, Cheshire, London etc…etc

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

Ian Turnock - Eye of the Hurricane on Wall

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I create intricate and detailed drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut into stainless steel, corten, aluminium, copper, reclaimed steel and plywood, transforming the drawn line into a tangible object.

Ian Turnock

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Zac Greening

Zac Greening draws his inspiration principally from nature – ‘the ultimate sculptress’. He finds the sculptural forms created by the sun, moon, waves and trees particularly inspiring as symbols of sustainability.

He works in a wide range of media from discarded plastic bottles to organic matter. Often these materials are fused together to reinforce the aesthetic or narrative that he’s looking to express.

A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment.

Common themes found in his work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues. Issues such as sustainability, environmental degradation, or consumption. Alternatively they may simply be an expression of the marvel and awe he sees in a sunset or the kinetic and meditative experience found in the rolling of sea waves.

Zac Greening communicates and reminds the viewer of mankind’s inextricable socio-economic and spiritual link with the natural world

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Commissions

Window Displays

Jigsaw
Monsoon
Viyella
Topshop

Brand Installations

BMW
Jaguar
Sony
Speedo
Good Energy

Available for commission of site specific artworks.

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Medium:

Mixed Media
Recycled Materials
Wood
Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

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A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment. Common themes found in my work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues.

Zac Greening

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Chris Wood

Chris Wood’s medium is light. She uses a range of high and low-tech optical materials to harness patterns of light that suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world.

Her sculptures are simple arrangements creating kinetic patterns in response to the environments in which they are placed. Her work brings a wistful romanticism to a minimalist aesthetic. Chris Wood orders the accidental and makes us reflect on the experience of seeing.

After studying Furniture Design at Middlesex University in the mid 1980s. She then went on to study glass at the Royal College of Art, where she worked on architectural scale projects dealing with light and space.

Chris Wood produces innovative installations for gallery exhibition. She has shown extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Her work is represented in a number of private collections as well as the Shanghai Museum of Glass.

She also produces work to commission and has created works for Fendi Fashion House, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Premier Inn Hotel and a Scandinavian cruise ship. Chris is currently working on her largest project to date in Taiwan.