Other Women

Kilted woman 2008 (Oak) (35x7x6) Fergus Murray
Kilted woman 2008 (Oak) (35x7x6)
Flat Torso 2009 (River Oak)  Fergus Murray
Flat Torso 2009 (River Oak)
Flat Torso 2009 (River Oak) Detail
Flat Torso 2009 (River Oak) Detail
Crossed  Woman 2008 (Beech) (21x24x3) Fergus Murray
Crossed Woman 2008 (Beech) (21x24x3)
After Tilman Riemenschneider (Chestnut)
After Tilman Riemenschneider (Chestnut)
Pear Babe (pear)
Pear Babe (pear)

Kilted Woman was inspired by two things: an etching I found in a skip when I was at art college as a part-time mature student and visits I had been making to the Egyptian Collection at the British Museum. The prints was of the three stages of womanhood and showed a young woman both steadfast and quietly beautiful. The piece I studied at the British Museum was a son of Ramesses II bearing standards of the god Osiris from the 19th Dynasty, about 1250 BC. Here a some preparatory drawings and photos. 

 

Flat Woman is made from an ancient piece of planking I pulled out of the tidal Thames underneath Chamber's Wharf pier.  It took forever to dry out and knocked around in my studio for months before I incised and inked a 'woman' into the surface of the plank.

 

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