GALLERY PANGOLIN Tucked away in the village of Chalford on the slopes of the Cotswold escarpment is one of Gloucestershire’s best-kept secrets. On what was once a Victorian industrial site at the heart of the Golden Valley next to the River Frome, Gallery Pangolin opened its doors over twenty years ago. Its initial inspiration was the need to showcase the excellent sculpture cast by the adjacent Pangolin Editions art foundry; it was only later discovered to be coincidentally reviving a 19th century traditional association between foundry and gallery. Gallery Pangolin has since grown rapidly and has an exciting programme which includes themed and one-man shows, publications, lectures and films and collaborations with other galleries and museums. It also co-ordinates public commissions, curates exhibitions and acts as an agent for artists and collectors. One of the few galleries to specialise in sculpture and related drawings, Gallery Pangolin now has an established reputation for works of quality and excellence by both Modern and contemporary artists and is open to visitors six days a week. CONTEMPORARY ANTHONY ABRAHAMS RALPH BROWN JON BUCK DANIEL CHADWICK ANN CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL COOPER TERENCE COVENTRY STEVE DILWORTH ABIGAIL FALLIS SUE FREEBOROUGH JONATHAN KINGDON ANITA MANDL CHARLOTTE MAYER PETER RANDALL-PAGE ALMUTH TEBBENHOFF WILLIAM TUCKER MODERN KENNETH ARMITAGE REG BUTLER LYNN CHADWICK GEORGE FULLARD BERNARD MEADOWS OZYMANDIAS ‘KING OF KINGS’ BRONZE EDITION OF 5 240 CM HIGH right: PLAYING BRONZE EDITION OF 9 19 CM HIGH ANTHONY ABRAHAMS b 1926 Having graduated from Cambridge with an Arts degree, Abrahams studied at the Anglo- French Art Centre in London. After a successful career in advertising he became a sculptor and lives and works in Gloucestershire, England. Abrahams’ carefully poised, enigmatic figures follow a tradition in British sculpture that began in the 1950’s with sculptors such as Armitage, Butler, Chadwick, Frink and Meadows. The exaggeration of some features and the repression of others, unified by formal and textural qualities, give his sculpture a personal and expressive quality as if Prehistoric fertility symbols had been reborn in the contemporary world. His emblematic figures, caught in playful postures, remind us of ourselves and of those familiar to us. Most recently, he has turned to an exploration of printing methods including solar prints, drypoint and monoprints. He handles this new medium with characteristic dexterity, producing images of great charisma and poignancy. Abrahams’ work is in private collections in the UK, USA and Europe. His most recent major piece ‘Ozymandias ‘King of Kings’’ can be seen at King’s Place, London. SWIMMING MOVEMENT BRONZE EDITION OF 7 68 CM LONG right: CLOCHARD BRONZE EDITION OF 6 166 CM LONG RALPH BROWN b 1928 Ralph Brown was born in Leeds. He studied at Leeds College of Art, famous at the time for two of its former students, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and at the Royal College of Art in London. Scholarships followed, firstly to Paris in 1951 to work in the studio of Ossip Zadkine and later to Italy in 1954 to study Etruscan sculpture. He also worked for a period in Cannes making mosaic panels for Picasso. During the fifties his work attracted much critical acclaim and was shown alongside his contemporaries Armitage, Turnbull and Paolozzi. In the 60’s his work became more figurative, concentrating on smooth, sensuous human forms. Brown’s sculpture is imbued with a humanist concern for the pathos of our human condition. The Second World War, its tragedies and the euphoria of peace, together with the social freedoms of the 1960’s, provided him with a contemporary context in which he deftly and eloquently communicates our vulnerability and sensuality. Brown was elected a Royal Academician in 1972. A major retrospective of his sculpture and drawings was held by the Henry Moore Centre for Sculpture in Leeds City Art Galleries in 1988. His work can be found in many public collections including the Arts Council of Great Britain, Bristol City Art Gallery, Leeds City Art Gallery, The National Museum of Wales and the Tate Gallery, London. CACTUS CAT BRONZE WITH STEEL PINS EDITION OF 10 56 CM HIGH right: HEPTILE BRONZE EDITION OF 10 12.5 CM HIGH JON BUCK b 1951 Jon Buck studied Fine Art at Nottingham and Manchester Art Schools. He was a Fellow in Sculpture at Cheltenham College of Art and the first Artist in Residence for Thamesdown Borough Council in 1983. He is a Member of the Royal West of England Academy and of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. From his earliest days Buck has pursued his twin interests of the figure and the natural world. His recent work has become more iconic in form, centred on the ‘making’ processes of casting from clay and plaster into metal. The sculptures act as intercessors between our contemporary intellectual selves and a more ancient, unconscious self that connects with our primitive, fundamental nature. “The Medium or the Message’ is a constant debate in the maker’s mind. I like to think of it as the process of marrying the object and subject together and as in all good marriages there is constant to and fro. The process of making, I discovered, is an important way of considering one’s subject.” Buck has completed many public commissions including ‘Embracing the Sea’ for Deal, Kent, ‘Returning to Embrace’ for Canary Wharf in London, ‘In the Swim’ for West Quay Centre, Southampton and ‘Ship to Shore’ for Portishead Quays, near Bristol. His work is regularly exhibited in UK and abroad and is held in many public and private collections. YOU AND ME JON BUCK BRONZE EDITION OF 5 215 CM HIGH TRANSPARENT GREY & CLEAR FROSTED DISK MOBILE 19.01.09 UNIQUE 250 CM WIDE right: MOTHER & CHILD FLOCKED STERLING SILVER EDITION OF 6 3.5 CM HIGH DANIEL CHADWICK b 1965 Daniel Chadwick lives and works in Gloucestershire. As a contributor to the design team at Zaha Hadid Architects, he was involved with a number of international projects before deciding to concentrate on his sculpture. His work often incorporates humour and wit, using modern materials and bright colours to convey a sense of fun. Natural elements are made minute or enormous in scale and many works are kinetic or mobile in form. Chadwick’s engineering background is reflected in the complex and graceful balance of his kinetic works in which tiny solar-powered motors silently and almost imperceptibly move individual components in an intricate ballet. Many of Chadwick’s mobiles are sited in public spaces or held in corporate collections and he has frequently been commissioned to create pieces for new buildings, tailored to reflect and celebrate the architectural philosophy behind them. IN PLACE OF LIGHT I STAINLESS STEEL EDITION OF 9 19.5 CM HIGH right: WHITE LIGHT STERLING SILVER EDITION OF 9 4 CM HIGH ANN CHRISTOPHER RA b 1947 Ann Christopher studied sculpture at the West of England College of Art. She was elected a Royal West of England Academician in 1983 and a Royal Academician in 1989. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and in 1994 was awarded an RBS Silver Medal for Sculpture of Outstanding Merit. Her sculptures are elegantly poised, restrained and calm, belying a meticulous attention to detail and texture. Complex in their inspiration, their quiet presence is evocative of modern industrial landscape, ancient monoliths and natural rock formations. “There is an emotional element to my work - my sculptures are also about journeys - the emotional journey of my life and the physical places I experience. The practicality of putting this into a solid object is of allowing your head to lead your hands, ‘the containment of shadows’, the combination of a shared view translated into my personal language.” Christopher exhibits regularly and widely and has completed many public commissions. Her work is held in public collections including those of the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol University, the Royal Academy and the Royal West of England Academy. MICHAEL COOPER b 1944 Michael Cooper grew up in the west of Ireland and now lives and works in Buckinghamshire. His sensuous animal and human forms are carved in marble or stone or cast into bronze. His empathy for his subjects allows his chisel deftly to reveal not only the inner calm and beauty of the stone but also the essence of the animal itself. Cooper’s sculptures are dignified, self-assured, independent and respectful. They have a deep and quiet energy perhaps imparted by the long hours of chipping which bring them forth from the stone. His work brings the third dimension vividly to life through the irresistible urge to feel and caress surface and form and this abstract, almost musical pleasure is essential to the appreciation of his sculptures. Cooper is a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and has exhibited widely both in Britain and abroad. He has completed several large scale works including a four ton Gorilla for Lord Carrington’s Sculpture Garden, a 1.5 metre high Bear for Bicester Village in Oxfordshire and a reclining figure in Travertine Marble for Covent Garden in London. left: BEAR BRONZE EDITION OF 5 200 CM HIGH LINKED FIGURES BRONZE EDITION OF 9 14 CM HIGH WALRUS MICHAEL COOPER BRONZE EDITION OF 9 32 CM HIGH TERENCE COVENTRY b 1938 Terence Coventry studied at Stourbridge School of Art and the Royal College, London. Rooted in a strong figurative tradition, his sculpture exists in spite of any vagaries or trends in the art world. His is an intensely personal art, practical and unpretentious, honest and imbued with great integrity. Coventry’s work explores animals familiar to us: birds, bulls, cows and boars, images drawn from his long association with the land and its occupants.