TERENC E COVENTRY
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Cover: Large Goat II 88 cm high
Bronze, edition of 5
Right: Large Goat I
ISBN: 978-0-9926590-1-1
158 cm high
Bronze, edition of 4
TERENCE COVENTRY 14 September – 12 October 2013
NEW CRAFTSMAN GALLERY 24 Fore Street · St Ives Cornwall TR26 1HE 01736 795652 www.newcraftsmanstives.com The full exhibition can be viewed on our website. All work is for sale from receipt of this catalogue.
TERENCE COVENTRY The sculptural work of Terence Coventry is rooted in a strong figurative tradition, and his distinctive works explore a fundamental relationship with his environment and the familiar forms of his life on the rural Lizard Peninsula. Trained at the Royal College of Art in the late 1950s, Coventry later turned his back on the art world and spent a quarter of a century farming near Coverack in West Cornwall before returning to sculpture in 1985. Regarded as one of the country’s foremost contemporary sculptors, he exhibits regularly at Gallery Pangolin, London and as far away as New York. This 2013 New Craftsman exhibition is the first showing of Coventry’s sculpture within his home county of Cornwall for over twenty years. His powerful and often huge scale, faceted sculptures of human figures, couples, horses, goats, dogs, birds, boar and cattle are works of extraordinary presence.With an eye for the essence of shape, movement and poise unique to any one creature, Coventry is able to distil his observations into pure and utterly convincing forms.Whether in motion or stillness, his sculptural works and exquisitely rendered drawings capture a visual moment that the rest of us may only register unconsciously. Constructed variously in steel, Cor-ten steel and bronze, both the material and subject of Coventry’s sculpture are expressive of the agricultural history of both our past and present, and are a reminder of the precious relationship we hold with each other, our fellow creatures and our rural environments.
Cor-ten Owl 67.5 cm high
2
Cor-ten steel, unique
Vital Man 1 21 cm high
Bronze, edition of 10
Balanced Man Maquette 46 cm high
Bronze, edition of 10
3
Couple 1 59.5 x 84 cm
Standing Couple Charcoal on paper
Couple III 29 cm high
4
Bronze, edition of 10
Unique
59.5 x 84 cm
Charcoal on paper
Unique
Vital Man III 57.5 cm high
Woman with Hands Behind Her Head Bronze, edition of 10
32 cm high
Forged steel, unique
5
Vital Man V 30.5 cm high Bronze, edition of 10
Talking Couple 32 cm high Bronze, edition of 10
6
Dog 59.5 x 84 cm
Charcoal on paper
Unique
Hound 84 x 60 cm
Sitting Hound Photographic print on watercolour paper, edition of 30
43 cm high
Matt lacquered powder coated steel, unique
7
New Riders 64 cm high
8
Bronze, edition of 10
Rider I 63 cm high Bronze, edition of 10
9
Bull 60 x 84 cm
Turning Bull 33 cm high
10
Bronze, edition of 10
Photographic print on watercolour paper, edition of 30
Standing Bull III 39 cm high
Bronze, edition of 10
Woman with Bull 47 cm high
Steel, unique
11
Winged Form 60 cm high
12
Fabricated bronze, unique
Raven 32.5 cm high
Bronze, edition of 10
13
Avian Form 38 cm high
14
Steel, unique
Winged Form Series 83 cm high
Fabricated bronze, unique
15
Choughs 63.5 x 85 cm
Photographic print on watercolour paper, AP
Avian Form VI 29 cm high Bronze edition of 10
16
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