Dancers in Bronze 

Bronze on alabaster roundel · 45 × 45 × 28 cm · edition of 7 · fixed to the wall with a cleat
£6,800


Two birds turn together through the air, part of a wider sequence that reads flight as choreography. Inspired by swallows, their form and long, forked tails have been deliberately enhanced, exaggerated beyond the literal bird to give them an ethereal, otherworldly presence. Cast in bronze, that fleeting turn through the air becomes fixed, permanent, given weight.

The birds are set against a roundel of alabaster, its soft, clouded surface reading like sky. They stand proud of the stone, so their shadows shift as the light moves through the day.

The birds are sculpted and their wings hand-carved, then cast from moulds into wax and cast in bronze at the foundry using the lost wax method.

Edition 1/7 is for sale at Cornwall Contemporary

Other editions made to order. Please allow 12 weeks.