Kathy beside her work.
I liked this Napoleon bust with it's pristine and delicate frills of plaster. There is a rather mad hatter quality that runs through the whole collection.
Saturday, 21 September 2019
Exhibition at Andelli Art
This evening we went to a preview of work by artists who had studied at Leeds College of Art fifty years ago. Well of course were interested - it is where we had also studied, but rather further back than fifty years! I was particularly taken with the work of Kathy Dalwood who was exhibiting examples from her plaster bust collection. (We recalled her father from our student days. He had been a Gregory Fellow at the university and had given occasional lectures at the art school.)
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Mad Hatter alright!
ReplyDeleteThese busts have something very unusual about them, in spite of the first impression being so classic (shape of faces, white plaster).
Yes, they have a real story-telling quality to them.
DeleteAre the faces cast or modelled?
ReplyDeleteI don't know her working method, Tom, but I think that her faces and other elements will have been cast and then assembled.
DeleteThese are so lovely! She has taken a classic art form and given it a new, dreamy quality. I would really enjoy seeing her work in person.
ReplyDeleteThey were dainty and curious, and also, I suspect easily damaged. It would be lovely to see one in porcelain. (Not to mention own one! I didn't ask the price.)
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