Glynn Williams, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

Glynn Williams: Echo
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
December 15, 2000 - January 27, 2001

Glynn Williams’ first london exhibition for 5 years features two remarkable new sculptures. The first is a massively oversized, fragmented still life of bottle, jug and cups. Carved in Portland stone the piece covers an area of more than 3 metres square and rises to nearly 3 metres.

The second piece “Echo” is an exact full scale replication of the stone piece; cast in paper. This material, which is new to Glynn Williams, has starkly contrasting qualities to the stone sculpture and give the piece a ghost-like fragility, a physical and visual lightness.

The two pieces fill the gallery space and due to their scale appear like ancient monumental ruins.

Although Glynn Williams is predominantly known as a sculptor of the human figure he has used the image of the still life throughout his career. This exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue which includes the works in the show as well as examples of previous still-lifes dating back to the 1960’s. Simon Watney in his catalogue essay points out the associative similarity between the new still-lifes and grouped figures and in many of the still life works there is evidence of human presence or in some cases such as Still -life with Hat Coat and Shoes, absence. Glynn Williams has said himself “The human body is the centre of everything in art and most else”

Glynn Williams is professor of sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He has written extensively on sculpture over the past 30 years and has exhibited all widely. His work is in many private and public collections including the Tate Gallery.

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