Travelling to Millfield and Millfield Prep A37/Bristol

By Air NEWCASTLE- Bristol Airport is within easy reach of Millfield UPON-TYNE (25The miles) Atkinson along with Gallery Exeter at(56 Millfield miles), Heathrow A1(M) (120 miles) and Gatwick (143 miles), all have M6 A1 regularAs part scheduled of our commitmentflights. to the Arts, Millfield School is luckyA1(M) to have its Byvery Rail own gallery on site. The Atkinson Gallery was opened in 1992 by Shirley LIVERPOOL RailAtkinson, users may wife travel of CRMto Castle Atkinson Cary (12 CBE, miles), who was HeadmasterMANCHESTER and Principal at Duncan Elliott Bath (30 miles), Bristol (29 miles) or Yeovil A1 Millfield from 1970 to 1990. M1 Junction (19 miles). M6 The Atkinson Gallery is nationally recognised and holds major contemporary By Road BIRMINGHAM A1(M) Time’s Ceilidh exhibitions which are open to both our students and From the M5 leave the motorway LUTON M11 STANSTED atthe junction general 23 public.and join It the aims A39 to support young aspiring artistsM5 andM40 bring high eastwards. M4 HEATHROW LONDON calibre, international art to the South West region. M4 BRISTOL BATH M3 M20 From the M3 leave the motorway M23 Channel Some past exhibitors: atTravelling junction 8 to and Millfield join the A303and the Atkinson Gallery by road: GATWICK Tunnel M5 Terminal westwards and then the B3151 EXETER A303/M3/M25 Andy Warhol tionmaps.com From the M5 leave the motorway at junction 23 and join the A39 eastwards. Shepton Mallet for Millfield or the A37/A361 for Sir Anthony Caro MillfieldFrom the Prep. M3 leave the motorway at junction 8 and join the A303 westwards and then the B3151 for Millfield. Lynn Chadwick Gillian Ayres Midsomer Radstock A36

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Travelling between Millfield Senior and Prep Schools1 September - 18 October 2014 Exit the Senior School main car park and turn left onto Butleigh Road. Travel for 1 mile and turn left onto Blagrove Hill. Continue along Cow Bridge Road onto Butleigh Road for 1.9 miles. Upon reaching the crossroads turn right onto the A361 Bere Lane. Millfield School, Street, , BA16 0YD | Tel: +44 (0)1458 442291 Continue to a roundabout and take the second exit to remain on the A361, then travel for a further 0.8 miles. Turn right onto Cinnamon Lane and turn left immediately to the Prep School car park. If travelling from the Prep School to the Senior School please use the same directions as above but in reverse. The journey time between the two schools is only 10 minutes by car. Sculpture in its earliest form sought object readymade, allowing everyday to animate, to allow us to perceive objects to embody the value of art. movement in stone. In classical In this instance readymades were not tradition the quality of a sculpture mass produced man-made objects, was judged on the creation and but like Japanese suiseki, the natural fluidity of movement. The Parthenon fractal forms of stone shaped by friezes continue to be celebrated erosion and orogeny. It is the Pu of for the freedom evident in their the Tao, the un-carved block, the depictions of the human form and stone which the builder rejected, movement. that forms the cornerstone of his approach. During the Rennaisance Michaelangelo returned to the Duncan’s practice is a constant classical tradition, he sought process of discovery, seeking out perfection in sculpture born from its stones and making connections. It materials and famously said that: forces him, as a sculptor, to resolve “In every block of marble I see a spatial puzzles. Precluding multiples statue as plain as though it stood and repetition, the method relies before me, shaped and perfect in on the range of responses to the attitude and action. I have only material he finds; unearthed, raw, to hew away the rough walls that naturally formed, found pieces of imprison the lovely apparition to limestone. He is not pressurised into reveal it to the other eyes as mine the perfection of marble. Individual see it.” pieces, unique, flawed, holding together, embody the movement Duncan Elliott found his connection of their journey. with stone and the tradition of sculpture during a childhood spent This meeting of Land Art and in the Mendips. He returns to the Classicism allows the sculptor to play classical tradition from a modernist a more earthy version of Hermann standpoint, starting to pin together Hesse’s, Nobel Prize winning, ‘Glass found fragments of stone as though Bead Game’. His work perceives, restoring a classical sculpture. evokes and draws from not only For Duncan it seemed that it had mankind’s 35,000 year expression taken Marcel Duchamp’s insight through form, but also from the epic to conceive the value of the found time-scale of geomorphology. A Mendip childhood filled with river clay and rocks set Duncan on the path where nature informed his art. With the encouragement of Jeremy Baines the wonderful Teacher of Art at Clifton College, Duncan headed to Art school at Bath and then Leeds with an open mind, experimenting around the disciplines. With a term to go however, feeling that he hadn’t achieved his own degree goals he returned to the Mendips and began to work with the local limestone.

While the YBAs were emerging in , Duncan was travelling around America on a motorbike, working in the scene painting industry in Los Angeles, pavement drawing images of Jesse Jackson at the Democratic Convention, settling in Marble Hill, Georgia to develop his stone carving skills. Ten years of travelling led him to the mountains of Crete where those skills came in to play, making monumental marble sculpture for the Greeks. a group of pieces came together “Wild Arab”, which embodies The dynamic space of Millfield’s Those three years in Crete however that convinced him to return to the the resolution of a challenge that Atkinson Gallery enables the pieces re-kindled his fascination with West Country to work and find an Classical Sculpture had been unable to come together on a larger scale natural limestone forms. In a audience. to achieve, a life-size than ever before, allowing you to landscape steeped in myth and free-standing stone horse. move through the time-scale the history and strewn with stone, In 2008 Duncan Elliott was work embodies and reawaken your he was finally able to ground commissioned to create a five In 2013, as a Guest Artist at Bristol’s own connection with stone. his wanderlust. Inspired by the metre figure for Liverpool in its Festival of Stone, Duncan sited ruins of the earliest European year as the European Capital of twenty seven sculptures at the civilisation that surrounded him, Culture. This work led to another, city’s cultural institutions. “While most school children learn about art from books and slide projections or the occasional trip to a museum, Millfield pupils have the real thing on the premises.”

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Millfield’s arts landscape is Most recent winners include As well as the varied work of enhanced by a unique sculpture Richard Jack’s Family Patterns, our Sculptors in Residence, the collection within our 100 acres a mild steel construction with a nod Sculpture Tour has hosted major of parkland with its magnificent towards Cubism located outside the exhibitions from international outlook towards entrance to the School reception. sculptors, including Sir Anthony and the Mendip Hills. Featuring Also in 2006 the Music Centre Caro, Peter Randall Page and large scale permanent works from commissioned Stephen Hitchin’s Sophie Ryder. artists such as Marcus Vergette, Symphony, a relief piece of Ancaster Glynn Williams and Peter Randall- Stone which sweeps across a large Visitors can collect a Sculpture Page the collection uses the expanse of curving wall like a series Tour map and visitor’s badge from landscape to enrich the artistic and of musical notes. the Atkinson Gallery during aesthetic backdrop for visitors. opening hours. The 2007 autumn term saw a The Annual Millfield Sculpture special stone War Memorial Commission ran between 1989- Commission by Chris Peterson to 2008, and was an open competition remember former Millfield students for artists from across the UK and who lost their lives in war, while Europe to work as Sculptor in in 2008 a purchased sculpture, Residence for six to eight weeks. Stepping Out, by Sarah Moore & Jan The finished commission would Roe was installed in a fine elevated then form part of the Millfield position near the dining hall. sculpture collection.