On The Shelf: Sculpture or Ornament?
My grandmother ran a boarding house next door to the town police station. Her lodgers were mainly policemen, other working men just starting out in life, and the occasional travelling salesman. Lining the walls of her dark, linoleum-floored passage were a series of child-sized girl figures holding charity collection boxes labelled: ‘The Blind’, ‘Action for […]
Exhibition News
Five of the concrete head studies, featured in my ‘Sculpture’ gallery on this site, https://www.deborahstanhope.uk/portfolio/sculpture/ can be seen in the ‘Form’ exhibition at the Cupola Gallery, Sheffield. Details below: Cupola Gallery 178 Middlewood Road, HillsboroughSheffield S6 1TD UK Open Monday to Saturday 10 – 6 As with all my work these small, concrete head studies are […]
Reflections on Life Drawing III: Naked or Nude?
While washing my hands in the model’s makeshift “changing room” (really just the toilet), she walked in and started getting dressed. I quickly apologised, saying I’d be out in a moment. Just as she was about to step into her polka-dot knickers, she burst out laughing: “I always find it funny when artists apologise for […]
Reflections on Life Drawing
Life drawing is a difficult skill to learn. Many artists avoid it and when I was at college in the 90’s it was often considered by students as old fashioned and stuffy. Maybe it was because life drawing requires practice and can feel exposing. It is a process of enquiry, taking years of practice to […]