The Environment Triptych (terracotta): portraits of writer Richard Mabey, moral philosopher Mary Midgley and scientist James Lovelock.
Jon Edgar - solo sculpture shows
The works of Exeter graduate Jon Edgar is appearing in two solo exhibitions during 2010. Carvings and Claywork - at Worthing Museum until June 19th - features over forty works spanning the last decade. During the Autumn, new sculptures will be on show in the designed landscape of Chawton House.
Edgar read Biology/Geography, graduating in 1990 before completing a Masters in Landscape Ecology and Design at London University's Wye College.
Finding his opportunities for personal creativity were gradually decreasing, he spent two years at The Frink School of Figurative Sculpture in the Potteries before moving to premises in Herefordshire where he established himself as a sculptor.
He became a visiting sculpture tutor at The Edward James Foundation's West Dean College in 2005, returning to live in West Sussex with his young family in 2007. His work is now in several public collections here and abroad.
Jon Edgar said: 'These carvings in wood and stone are non-conceptual, of a human scale and should stand without the need for interpretation. In contrast, work from life in clay contributes a memory of forms which emerge, with landscape and other organic references, in these carvings.
My Exeter background aroused a general awareness of environmental processes and forms; geomorphology lectures and Tegwyn Harris’s marine organisms still visually reside deeply within me!
The environmental series of portrait heads is growing into a body of work representing the thinkers and the do-ers helping us come to terms with the global imbalance we currently experience.'
- Jon Edgar - Carvings and Claywork
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, West Sussex until 19th June
- Jon Edgar - Sculpture in the Wilderness
Chawton House, Hampshire 19th July-31st October
Date: 25 March 2010
