David Robinson, Susan Collett, and Sandra Ledingham: Gestures and Structures
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Winchester Galleries - Oak Bay (CLOSED) 2260 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, British Columbia V8R 1G7
Winchester Galleries, "Gestures and Structures," 2021
installation shot, artwork by Sandra Ledingham.
Gestures and Structures: Artworks by David Robinson, Susan Collett, and Sandra Ledingham
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 2021, 3:00 - 4:00 pm (with a limit of 10 people at the gallery at the same time)
Winchester Galleries is thrilled to announce our new exhibition Gestures and Structures to mark the beginning of summer 2021. This exhibition is a collection of artworks by David Robinson, Susan Collett, and Sandra Ledingham. This exhibition focuses on a variety of forms from human gestures to abstract architectural structures. This collection indicates the pursuit of Mankind’s search for his identity and sense of belonging through shapes, colours, and textures.
Susan Collett
Artist Statement
The Racine sculpture series, derives from my interest in the tension of order and chaos. As I push the work towards the edge of physical collapse, I aim to make this opposition more potent.
The work is hand-built and sculptural in nature, turned and rebuilt in layers.
The sculptures form uprooted clusters, an analogy that life is cumulative and never quite finished, unable to be ordered or tidied, messy and chaotic but not without beauty.
Liquid clay filaments with an under drawing of nichrome wire, describe the delicacy and fine line of vascular networks, tributaries, root and branch formations that I am drawn to.
The chaotic pathways within the uprooted shapes culminate in an order of focus: the
teardrop budding of silver and mother of pearl orbs.
In each piece there is a notion of light coming out of darkness, as roots come into bloom. I want the work to heave and move, suspended and breathing through this interplay of light movement.
The Racine series resonates from my own acceptance of inevitable change and looking deeper into any situation to find the beauty.
Sandra Ledingham
Artist Statement
WALLS
Walls for all their simplicity or unassumingness, carry an infinity of meaning and message. In ruinous form they provide us with the traces of our oldest civilizations. They have been built as monoliths for ritual purposes as in the case of Stonehenge or as architectural monuments to great peoples: the pyramids of Egypt, the Maya of Central America and the temples of Greece.
They have been built as walls to keep peoples separated: from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China. Within the human conditions – we build walls. Walls to keep things in and walls to keep things out. We have walls of architectural constructs that speak to Modernism in all its glory. And we have walls as accessible public spaces where voices are given platform. Pivotal to Ledingham’s walls are the coded punctures via Binary, Braille or Morse codes suggesting to the viewer an interior space, adding a fundamental layer of message & mystery.
CURVED PLANES
Ledingham’s Curved Planes reference both architecture, and the power of a simple curved piece of paper. As well they are influenced by the artists experience of living part-time near the Caribbean Sea of Mexico. As a worker of ‘objects in space’ she is lured by a love of architecture and ‘Formalism’ with its pure elements, drives her interest in form.
David Robinson
Vancouver-based artist David Robinson studied at Langara College and then at the Ontario College of Art where he became an Honours Graduate in the Sculpture Program. Robinson uses mixed media to create his works. His pieces often include psychological and mythological themes to illustrate the complex nature of human life. He skillfully embeds symbols and imagery so that they are accessible to his audience.
“The function of gravity as both fact and metaphor is the central paradox of the sculptor’s creative process. Under the sway of this aesthetic confluence, the objective viewer of a figure in space becomes implicated into the microcosm of the artwork by means of a kind of metaphorical vertigo. This visceral response is the essential persuasive mechanism of the medium of sculpture.”
Over the course of his career, Robinson has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. His works are featured in establishments such as the Four Seasons Hotel Resort in Whistler, Painted Rock Estate Winery, and Vancouver General Hospital.
Winchester Galleries is proud to represent David Robinson starting in December 2020. Robinson’s evocative sculptures are exquisite additions to the gallery’s collection.
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