Kings Place

Sterling Stuff II

17 November 08 - 18 January 09

The ancient symbolic value of silver as currency is probably its most recognisable incarnation.  In reality however, silver is much more versatile.  As a metallic element it is found pure in its natural state.  It is an efficient conductor, has healing and antiseptic properties and is often linked with the moon, femininity and fertility.  All cultures have awarded the precious metal a special status but somehow this preciousness seems to have inhibited its use for sculpture.

Sterling Stuff II  is an exhibition devoted entirely to the exploration of sculpture in silver.  Over fifty contemporary artists, many experimenting with the metal for the first time, have produced a gem of a show; a cross-section of the sculpture world that is dazzling in its diverse response to the material.  It is a spectacle of superb craftsmanship, intensely observed realism, sensuous abstraction, poignant conceptualism and wild surrealism.

Artists included in the exhibtion:

Anthony Abrahams      Ann Christopher        Nicola Hicks                    Charlotte Mayer
Kenneth Armitage        Michael Cooper         Damien Hirst                   David Nash
David Bailey                Terence Coventry      Kenny Hunter                 Breon O'Casey
Glenys Barton              Dorothy Cross           Steve Hurst                    Eilis O'Connell
Bruce Beasley              Judith Dean               Michael Joo                     William Pye
Nick Bibby                    Steve Dilworth           Jonathan Kenworthy      Peter Randall-Page
Petur Bjarnson             Angus Fairhurst         Philip King                       Kenneth Robertson
Christie Brown             Abigail Fallis               Jonathan Kingdon           Almuth Tebbenhoff             
Don Brown                   Sue Freeborough       Bryan Kneale                 Johanna Thordardottir
Ralph Brown                Antony Gormley         David Mach                    William Tucker
Jon Buck                      Steven Gregory          Alistair Mackie                Jason Wason
Daniel Chadwick           Nigel Hall                   John Maine                     Glynn Williams
Lynn Chadwick             Marcus Harvey          Anita Mandl

 

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