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Steve Dilworth: Off the Rock

Past exhibition
6 - 30 September 2017
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Steve Dilworth, Ark, 2000
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Steve Dilworth British, b. 1949

Ark, 2000
Bronze and nickel silver
114 x 193 x 132 cm
44 7/8 x 76 x 52 in
Unique
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Steve Dilworth, Sea Form, 2017
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Steve Dilworth, Sea Form, 2017
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Steve Dilworth, Sea Form, 2017
'Ark is perhaps Dilworth’s most important piece to highlight this change of direction and is the largest cast metal work he has created to date. Originally commissioned for a sculpture...
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"Ark is perhaps Dilworth’s most important piece to highlight this change of direction and is the largest cast metal work he has created to date. Originally commissioned for a sculpture park near Chichester, Dilworth wanted Ark to be a vessel worthy of travelling forward in time for millennia. This meant making the work more decorative than he would do usually in the hope it would never be destroyed. Inspired by the casting process, Dilworth came up with the idea of the carapace being cast in two separate metals - bronze and nickel silver - to give the work a unique aesthetic, with the metals not inlaid but fused together by welding. Within the egg, clutched protectively within the insectile legs, is another bronze and nickel silver sculpture which will never be seen unless the sculpture is brutally cut open. Within this sculpture lie the remains of a hooded crow, hated by islanders for preying on young animals and carcasses but esteemed by Dilworth for its ability to survive." - Polly Bielecka
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Steve Dilworth: Off The Rock, 2017 October - November

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