Artist: Bernard McGuigan
Media: sandstone on wood base
Dimensions: 58 x 35 x 22 cm, 30 kgs
Estimate: £5,000 - £6,000
Date: 2016/2017
Current bids: 0
Description:
Abstract sculpture, carved by hand from a piece of Forest of Dean sandstone mounted on a hardwood base
Artist’s links:
Website: www.bernard-mcguigan.format.com
Instagram: bernard.mcguigan
Artist’s biography:
Bernard McGuigan was born in Britain in 1956, and started making sculpture aged 16. He is entirely self-taught, and as a former associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, his work has been widely exhibited, including The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. His work is featured in a number of private and corporate collections in the UK and abroad.
In the tradition of the 20th century sculptors, such as Moore, Hepworth, Gill and Modigliani, McGuigan uses the same method of direct carving by hand.
His pieces are graceful and deceptively simple, in terms of both their carving style and of their tranquil potency. When first coming across an exhibition of his work, we delight in the perceived tension between stone as a reliable and in relation to our own lives, timeless material, this sensation may be remembered in the mind like a line from a requiem, quietly insistent.
