ARTS: Skye by Brian Wall

You are currently looking at SKYE, a sculpture by Brian Wall. This massive piece is one-of-a-kind constructed welded steel sculpture. Like Wall’s other work, it combines geometric elements, often created from sliced sections of industrial steel tubes or I-beams. Wall’s work ranges from tabletop scale to monumental outdoor installations.

 

Throughout his career, Wall's work has been purely abstract, without reference to the outside world, or human figures. He once said: "For me anyway the important breakthrough in contemporary sculpture has been the disappearance of figurative and associative imagery."

 

In an article “BRIAN WALL: SQUARING THE CIRCLE by George W. Neubert” Neubert writes Brian Wall is an intuitive artist, arriving at “a kind of rightness” through improvisation. “Simplicity” is a word he uses often, and it is a clue to his sculptural objective. His best work has been described as representing an art of balance and tension at rest.

 

See More at https://brianwall.org/

 

About The Artist: Brian Wall is a British-born American sculptor now living in California. His work consists mainly of abstract welded steel constructions, and his career stretches over six decades.His art career stretches over seven decades from the modernist art center of St. Ives, Cornwall, in the ’50s, to the Swinging London art scene in the ‘60s, to Berkeley, California, at the height of the counterculture revolution of the ‘70s. Wall was Head of Sculpture at London’s Central School of Art and Design and was a professor at the University of California.  He has had numerous solo shows, and his sculptures reside in many private and public collections.

The Abbey Cathedral of St Albans
  1. Starting point - The clocktower
  2. 1 - Romeland Green with views of the Abbey Gatehouse and East Entrance to Cathedral
  3. 2 - The Cathedral from outside its Western end
  4. 3 - The Western entrance and a puzzle in three
  5. 4 - Inside the Western Doors
  6. 5 - The Great Nave - Function and Mystery
  7. 6 - The "Lower" Altar and Rood Screen
  8. 7 - The Abbot's Entryway
  9. 8 - The Great Crossing - Heart of the Abbey and its functions
  10. 9 - The High Altar and Great Screen
  11. 10 - The Sanctuary and Shrine of the Saint
  12. 11 - The Lady Chapel
  13. 12 - A view of the Abbey and Cathedral as a whole
  14. Further enquiries, feedback and credits