DUNHILL & O'BRIEN

The Sculpture Stories
 

Dunhill and O’Brien have been exploring ways that they can look at, think about, and make sculpture together since 1998. Their latest project  The Sculpture Stories has evolved in response to a challenge that they have taken rather literally by PostROOM,who have invited them to conduct a ‘total take over’ of the gallery (that doubles as Macrae and Bell’s kitchen-dining-room) and a screening space (that doubles as their garden shed). 

 

This intrusive installation will disrupt the heart of their home, converting it into a low-tech bespoke film studio with a dexion structure supporting outsized film props, a home-made copy table, a tracking device and storage for research material, housed in and around Macrae and Bell’s dining table, chairs, sofa and crockery cupboard.  The transplanted studio will be used to make two short film works which reflect on an equestrian sculpture that has haunted Dunhill and O’Brien’s studio practice for some years.

 

In the Shed other short films, that touch upon methods, materials and dilemmas that continue to preoccupy them will be screened. Triggers for these works include, how to avoid ‘overworking’ when modelling a clay head; fundamental problems with armatures; a cartoon questioning Henry Moore’s relentless productivity; a sleepless night worrying about a sculpture made decades earlier; a sculpture professor’s belief in the transformational power of the plinth; a 17 tonne gift made to Barbara Hepworth; mistrust in the perfect sculpture studio, and a bucket used as a tool for enlarging 3D forms.

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More information to follow

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Opening Saturday 11th April

11.04.26 - 9.05.26

Open Tuesday - Saturday 2-6pm

Or by appointment

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