'Iron Husk II' Peter Randall-Page b.1954

Circa 1998
Stock Number: 12490/GSO
Height 9.00 cm [0 ft 4 ins]

Width 16.00 cm [0 ft 6 ins]

Depth 11.00 cm [0 ft 4 ins]
Ј5,600.00

GBP - Pound Sterling
Artist's Resale Right applies @ 4%



Cast Iron

Unique

Cast 1998



Provenance

Mr R Warby Purchased 1998 Stephen Lacey Gallery London



Exhibited

1998 Peter Randall-Page New Sculpture and Drawings Stephen Lacey Gallery London October 15 – November 28, 1998





Peter Randall-Page b. 1954

Peter was born in Essex and studied at the Bath

Academy of Art 1973 – 7. Barry Flanagan helped to take

down his graduation show (they met by chance!), Peter

then becoming his assistant. He then moved on to

work as a mason at Wells Cathedral, here gaining and

understanding, in context, the medieval mason’s craft.

Another strong influence was that of Isamu Noguchi,

with whom Peter had a lifelong correspondence. In 1980

Peter was a Winston Churchill Fellow travelling to Italy

to study marble carving in Carrara. ? Peter’s working

practice is in part expressed with these four works;

‘Fingers and Thumbs’ with fingerprints visible the spotty

pattern on a rock makes the ‘eye move more slowly

across (the work)’, encouraging us to be ‘aware of the

form’ and possibly intuit our own connection to early

(Aboriginal) rock paintings. ‘Husk II’ explores the organic

and the seed whose ‘inaccessible interior’ Peter has been

investigating from his earliest works. A repetition of the

continuous coil in ‘Bronze VI’, but this time a look inside,

in bronze, at the invisible folds of the lower intestine.

‘Stone Maquette I’ is an expression of Peter’s deep

interest in the geometry of nature and here looks to

‘visualize one form within another’, ‘natures theme and

variation’ by ‘accessing his imagination through the act of

carving’. ‘Night Song’, a title that implies an investigation

of dreams? ‘Stone is my vehicle for my fascination with

the human mind and imagination’ and with a bronze

crescent (disparate element) in balance with the claw

chiselled marble base, I would suggest Peter is asking

us to be aware of what the sculpture is ‘a lump of stuff’

but also subtly imply, with a nod to Miro, that ‘other

things are going on’… ? Peter has had many Solo shows

and has completed a number of public projects. He was

elected RA in 2015.