Artist : Laurence Edwards
Title : Shimmer
Medium : bronze (edition variee 1 of 5)
Dimensions : 244 cm height


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Laurence Edwards’ sculptural practice has long been concerned with the physical and metaphysical, orderly and entropic, entwining of man, nature and time. Organic matter is often built into the casting process, perhaps a detritus of leaves, branches, stone and / or rope. One of the few sculptors who casts his own work, he is fascinated by the metamorphosis of form and matter that governs the lost-wax process which is an inherent part of his process. It is a method of working which also registers symbolically and conceptually. His primary working material is bronze, an alloy that physically and metaphorically illustrates the natural tendency of any system in time to tend towards disorder and chaos. His sculptures express this raw material potential,  harnessing molten liquid versatility to achieve solid mass. Each process mark is both embraced and retained, telling the story of how and why each work came to be. 

Based in Suffolk, Edwards studied sculpture at Canterbury College of Art and bronze casting at the Royal College of Art with Sir Antony Caro. After winning a Henry Moore Bursary, the Angeloni Prize for Bronze Casting and an Intach Travelling Scholarship, he studied traditional casting techniques in India and Nepal, an experience that not only influenced his treatment of form and technique, but also gave him the necessary tools to establish his own atelier and foundry. In November 2019, ‘Man of Stones’ was unveiled at the Sainsbury Centre in Norfolk. In 2018, Edwards was commissioned by Doncaster Council to create a sculpture that celebrates the lives of those who worked in the collieries around Doncaster. ‘A Rich Seam’ was unveiled in Print Office Street in 2021. In November 2021, Edwards installed a 26-foot-high sculpture, alongside the A12 highway in Suffolk, called ‘Yoxman’. This colossal figure embodies his fascination between the human figure and the environment; he is part tree, cove, cliff and figure. ‘Gathering of Uncertainties’ opens at The Orange Regional Gallery NSW early 2023. Edwards is represented by Messums Wiltshire.