Shelter

This edition is limited to one per customer

Shelter is a limited edition print by Sir Antony Gormley made for Liverpool Biennial's 25^th Anniversary. Gormley's iconic legacy commission Another Place (2005) on Crosby Beach in Liverpool continues to attract thousands of visitors each year.

The artist explains:

'For me, drawing is an oracular process: tuning into the behaviour of substances as much as to the behaviour of the unconscious, like reading images in tea leaves. It is an open and fluid process in which medium and imagery intertwine to evoke rather than describe form and feeling.

In some senses these kinds of drawings make themselves: I am simply a witness, or instigator. They come about by flooding the paper with water and then, with a fully saturated Chinese brush, allowing its touch to spread pigment. The interpenetration of mineral and water happens in time and is dependent on season and temperature as much as my will or ability.

The original drawing for Shelter was made in my studio in Norfolk, a place of long horizons interrupted by stands of ash, beech, and oak, often overtaken by ivy, rambling rose, and hawthorn. Out of the studio window you see the weather coming across open fields – light, water, and solid merge and blur.

In Shelter the spreading fields of pigment evoke a form that is both landscape and body crouching close to the ground. The dark, deep pool suggests the infinite space of thought and feeling that we find inside the body: a space of imagination and potential.'

 

Antony Gormley

Shelter (2023)

Photo-polymer gravure on Velin arches Blanc 270 gsm paper
Sheet size 215 x 190 mm
Plate size 95 x 70mm
Edition of 100

Unframed.
Signed and numbered by the artist

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Antony Gormley, Shelter, 2023. © Robin Clewley