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Artist Statement:
In my experience as a sculptor, the relationship with the stone is primary. I was initially surprised by how profound this was - it compared to a human relationship. I found myself driven to create ‘natural’ forms, sometimes human and biological and at others architectural and cold, sometimes awkward, like my aesthetic sense - which seems unable to accept any form as finished - and like stones themselves, alien and primary too.
The profundity of the relationship between stone and sculptor inspires me – what is it exactly? What is it about stone? Of course, in one sense it is primary – it is the planet, what we stand on, what underpins everything. It has the permanence that we do not have. Perhaps the struggle to shape stone is the desire to give permanence to human ideas and emotions. The stone supplies the permanence. The idea the artist shapes it with steps out of time. That is the thrill, and the egotism too.
Sculpting also seems like a religious and a psychological activity – it mirrors the primacy of forming in the human psyche, and the desire to find form. When sculpting stone we recreate the world all over again, like a personal Genesis, and we ...
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Artist Galleries:
Arco Arte sculpture studio, Carrara, Italy. http://www.arcoarte.it/
http://www.stonesculpture.gothe re.uk.com
http://www.sambellsculpture.com ...
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Exhibitions for Sam Bell:
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Wysing Arts Open exhibition. July 2004
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