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Vessel I

Vessel I

Clear casting resin, fibreglass
Ht 360 x 57 x 375mm
Edition 3


Vessel I

Womb, bath, cradle
shadow on an ultrasound
a caul holding dark promise
cradle, bowl, bath
damp child slips through your fingers
hides his growing body from you
bath, boat, chair
adrift in a lake of thought
soaking love-pains away
chair, cradle, shell
prise off the carapace
whisper in the tiny ears
shell, boat, cradle
so scared, the crossed feet cover
his balls, knees protect the heart
cradle, casket, boat
head rises from his strong neck,
full of dreams, flies in amber
boat, casket, tomb
once-loved lump of a man
lost in ash-coloured light
tomb, cradle, womb

Jenny Mayor c 2010

Vessel I

Vessel I

Clear casting resin
Ht 360 x 57 x 375mm
Edition 3

We do love our sculpture it is a valuable asset to our contempory art
collection
Phyllis Rapp

Vessel I

Vessel I

Clear casting resin
Ht 360 x 57 x 375mm
Edition 3

Andre Wallace’s sculpture shows a total transformation of the observed – into a different medium and on to quite another scale – without for a moment being academic.
Edward Lucie Smith

Clear casting resin
Ht 360 x 57 x 375mm
Edition 3

Studio

Studio

Wallace's current mix of figuration and abstraction allows him to approach the forefront of contemporary endeavour, for his new work is well worth the attention it will generate.
Andrew Lambirth

Iron Vessel

Iron Vessel

Cast iron
Ht 380x570x375mm
Edition 3

Wallace needed a metaphor for the individual¹s journey though life, which, characteristically he wanted to render both general and specific. In effect, he wanted something which would refer as much to the real as to the imaginary, to the past as to the future.
Andrew Lambirth

Black Vessel

Black Vessel

Clear casting resin and LED lights
Ht 380x570x375mm
Edition 3

The work in this exhibition constitutes an exploration of form and meaning inextricably intertwined. Wallace speculates on the individual conduct of life by way of sculptures and drawings which evoke the rites of passage. The personal odyssey of existence is alluded to in images of pared-down energy and simplicity.
Andrew Lambirth

Black Vessel

Black Vessel

Clear casting resin and LED lights
Ht 380x570x375mm
Edition 3

Black Vessel

Black Vessel

Clear casting resin and LED lights
Ht 380x570x375mm
Edition 3

Sleepers

Sleepers

Clear casting resin
Ht 420 x 650 x 500mm
Edition 3

Wallace is not only interested in the formal qualities of sculpture but poses problems of an intellectual nature.
Linda Bolton – Arts Review

Sleepers

Sleepers

Clear casting resin
Ht 420 x 650 x 500mm
Edition 3

Sleepers

Sleepers

Clear casting resin
Ht 420 x 650 x 500mm
Edition 3

Sleepers

Sleepers

Clear casting resin
Ht 420 x 650 x 500mm
Edition 3

Vessel Maquettes

Vessel Maquettes

Pewter, clear casting resin, slate.
Ht: 73x130x66mm
Edition 9

Wallace chimes serenity of spirit with the supreme tactility of the materials he uses – whether it be the suave textures of carved Portland stone, the silky smoothness of cast pewter, or the coarser grain of bronze. His is a haptic understanding which demands a physical as well as an intellectual response.
Andrew Lambirth

Shadow Vessel

Shadow Vessel

Clear casting resin, black slate resin.
Ht: 73x130x66mm
Edition 9

Empty Vessel

Empty Vessel

Pewter
Edition 9
Ht: 73x130x66mm

Open Vessel

Open Vessel

Pewter
Edition 9
Ht

Man Vessel

Man Vessel

Pewter, black slate resin.
Ht
Edition 9

Translation and transformation are what this show is about . What is seen is linked to what is felt. The artist asks himself, not merely ‘What do I see?’ but ‘How do I react to what I see’, and then tries to make a single artistic statement which will convincingly answer both these questions simultaneously.
Edward Lucie Smith

Stone Heads

Stone Heads

Portland Stone
Unique
Each Head:
Ht 90x100x105mm

I have lived with three of Andre’s stone heads for a decade now.  They are beautifully stylised; very calm; and I shall never tire of them.

Dame Stephanie Shirley
Founder, Prior’s Court School

Pewter Head

Pewter Head

Pewter
Ht 90 x 100mm
Edition 6

Iron Head

Iron Head

cast iron resin
Ht 90 x 100mm
Edition 6

Bronze Head

Bronze Head

Bronze
Ht 90 x 105mm
Edition 6

Landscape Heads

Landscape Heads

The spherical or oval forms, reduced to the essence of their humanity and to the brink of pure abstraction [a clear echo of Brancusi here].
Andrew Lambirth

Moon Gazing

Moon Gazing

Portland stone
Ht 185mm
Unique

These abstracted ‘heads’may approach the machine-like, yet their ultimate human identity is never in doubt.
Andrew Lambirh

Pewter Heads

Pewter Heads

Pewter, white marble
Ht: 53 x 800mm
Edition 9

Instead of depicting a complete body, Wallace chooses to show us only the head – the individual in microcosm. It is a theme he investigates further in crisply carved Portland stone, or in cast and polished pewter. Wallace varies his imagery from the more obviously naturalistic to the more abstract and helmet-like.
Andrew Lambirth

Two piece Pewter Head

Two piece Pewter Head

Pewter
Edition 9
Ht: 53 x 36 x 63mm

The size is deliberately restricted: these small pieces are made for the hand and need to be touched and held.
Andrew Lambirth

Pewter I

Pewter I

Pewter
Edition 9
Ht: 45 x42 x 55mm

The size is deliberately restricted: these small pieces are made for the hand and need to be touched and held.
Andrew Lambirth

Pewter Head IV

Pewter Head IV

Pewter
Edition 9
Ht 45x50mm

The size is deliberately restricted: these small pieces are made for the hand and need to be touched and held. Andrew Lambirth

Two piece landscape head

Two piece landscape head

White marble resin, fibreglass
Edition 3
Ht 880mm

Wallace is clearly aiming for a massive – yet at the same time modest – simplicity, an archaic quality associated with the sculptures of ancient Greece.
Andrew Lambirth

Two piece landscape head

Two piece landscape head

White marble resin, fibreglass
Edition 3
Ht 880mm

The human figure remains the focus of Wallace’s research, but overlaid with references to the wider realm of nature as well as classical mythology.
Andrew Lambirth

Two piece Pewter head

Two piece Pewter head

Edition 9
Ht 53mm

….with small sculptures of rare intimacy and presence… these small pieces are made for the hand and need to be touched and held.
Andrew Lambirth

Navigators

Navigators

Pewter, zinc
Unique
Each unit: Ht 75 x 250 x 492mm

…..but in another he mounts the five etching plates in heavy pewter surrounds as floor sculptures, all reflecting torsoes and highlights. [These are the Navigator series, which complement and extend earlier Journeyman series.]
Andrew Lambirth

Navigator

Navigator

Pewter, zinc
Unique
Each unit: Ht75 x 250 x 492mm

…..but in another he mounts the five etching plates in heavy pewter surrounds as floor sculptures, all reflecting torsoes and highlights. [ These are the Navigator series, which complement and extend earlier Journeyman series. ]
Andrew Lambirth

Boatman

Boatman

Portman stone, slate
Unique
Ht 250 x 250 x 225mm

Boatman

Boatman

Portman stone, slate
Unique
Ht 250 x 250 x 225mm

Boatman

Boatman

Bronze
Edition 9
Ht 250 x 250 x 225mm

Boatwoman

Boatwoman

Portland stone, glossop stone
Unique
Ht 1230 x 380 x 380mm

Boatwoman

Boatwoman

Portland stone, glossop stone
Unique
Ht 1230 x 380 x 380mm

Boatwoman

Boatwoman

Portland stone, glossop stone
Unique
Ht 1230 x 380 x 380mm

Life boats

Life boats

Bronze, slate
Edition 9
Ht 180 x 890 x 130mm

Another accomplished realist sculptor is Andre Wallace…. his little personages are presented in such a way that it almost seems as if we are looking at them through the wrong end of a telescope.
Edward Lucie Smith

Life boats

Life boats

Bronze, slate
Edition 9
Ht 180mm

Girl with Hoop

Girl with Hoop

Portland stone, bronze.
Unique
Ht 890 x 560mm

Wallace’s work holds something in common with the work of Aristide Maillol and Frank Dobson. Undoubtedly, Wallace’s large- scale work has a heroism and monumentality, a relaxed classicsm, that both these sculptors evinced. There is evident in the work of all three a similar poise, confidence, and above all, formal clarity.
Andrew Lambirth

Girl with Hoop

Girl with Hoop

Bronze
Edition 9
Ht: 890x560mm

The 3 dimensional, multi-faceted viewpoints invite the onlooker to move around the work to see every aspect and silhouette and every modulation from highlights to the deepest shadows. There is no prescriptive meaning.
Sue O’Brien

Boating

Boating

Bronze
Edition 3
Ht 1250 x L 1150 x W 1020mm

The Boating series could just be about people in boats, but the work has classical references, to the Boatman taking people along the river of life or the Ferryman who transports from this world to the next.
Sue O’Brien

Boating

Boating

Bronze
Edition 3
Ht 1250 x L 1150 x W 1020mm

The boat has become a framework, just as a picture has its boundaries, so the rigid structure of the boat provides a formal contrast to the figures held by its compact shape.
Sue O’ Brien

Boating

Boating

Bronze
Edition 3
Ht 1250 x L 1150 x W 1020mm

Motor bike

Motor bike

White marble resin, fibre glass
Edition 3
Ht: 730x1000x510mm

Andre Wallace offers a series of meditations on the human predicament which recall the gnomic wisdom of the Chinese sage ­to travel hopefully is better thing than to arrive.
Andrew Lambirth

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