Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra : Journal Vol 114 (2011) he claimed that he grapples with Collaborative Works the transition of an idea into reality, interpretation and narrative. Not so very unusual for an artist, but his artistic Working in collaboration means that the participants journey so far shows his aims clearly. must negotiate, and when two artists work together this In this exhibition, Hornby’s sculpture The Horizon may be tricky. The general assumption is that the artist Comes (Ted Hughes) 2010 has been recreated as The works alone and is egocentric, answering only to the self, Horizon Comes in Chinese Blue, Hague Blue, Archive, the sounding board being self-discipline, looking at art Railings, Cornforth, Bubblicious and Firefly Red 2012. that has gone before and that of his or her peers. When Made in a composite of marble and resin this sculpture working together, voicing opinion, providing critical referenced forms found in Elisabeth Frink’s (193 0–1993) analysis and exercising mutual respect requires both Horse and Rider 1975 that stands in ; strength and tact. Constantine Brancusi’s (187 6–1957) The Cock 1924 and Nick Hornby and Sinta Tantra met when studying at Alexander Calder’s (189 8–1976) Flamingo 1974, which is the Slade School of Fine Art, University College , located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski from which they graduated in 2003 – Tantra went on to Federal Building in Chicago . The scale of Calder’s sculpture study further at the Royal Academy Schools and is phenomenally large, standing at some fifty-three feet developed her work along the lines of colour and tall. Aspects of each

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of colour? Which colours might best suit the scale of the D into his sculpture in the first place.

d n a sculpture? Would only certain sculptures be right for this Hornby’s The Broken Man 2010 is also made in a e n i d treatment? On the other hand, how might Hornby give a composite of marble and resin, and again is overlaid by n r a c n form to Tantra’s palette and shapes – her abstract I Tantra’s colour and pattern, thereby reborn as The

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k c i new and fresh. In an article he wrote for The Ampleforth N I found my friends, they’re in my head, in Cornforth, Hague Blue, Railings, Drawing Room, Chinese Blue, Expo 1958 designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn Nick Hornby , born in 1980, is a rising, young sculptor living and Lush Pink and Bubblicious 2012, in its first purely white with interiors by architects André and Jean Polak. The working in London. He studied at Wimbledon College of Art 1999, the Art Institute of Chicago 2003, the Slade School of form, was based on eighteenth-century sculpted portraits transformations give the clearest insight to the way in Fine Art, University College London 2003 and Chelsea College of Sculpture at Work in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which Hornby finds his sculptural imagery. Art 2007. Since his exhibition on graduating from the Slade in

London: Sir Francis Chantrey’s (1781–1841) Bust of John With her installation Le Bonheur II 2013, Sinta 2003, Hornby’s work has been included in group exhibitions, :

Raphael Smith 1725, who was a famous printmaker; Tantra has taken the opportunity to create one of her mostly in London, but also in regional galleries in Britain and in s

India, Greece, the United States and Poland. He has also had a

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Monika Bobinska Gallery, London, 2009; Arsenic Fantasy , Gaya s form by drawing elements from the works of others. towering buildings. e r D Fusion Gallery, Bali 2009 and Politics of Seduction , Picker C

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