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More information on the 2009 Sculpture Symposium

Luis Alfonso - Portugal

Luis gained a diploma in sculpture at the Faculty of Art, Lisboa, and is currently teaching sculpture at Evora University. Luis has exhibted regularly since the mid 90s both in Portugal and abroad and is represented in private collections. He was involved in the 'Extramuros' Exhibition in Ellesmere 2007 which was also shown in Portugal and Spain.

This piece is a dialogue between the site and the stone; the voice of millennia. This is a communication between the elements the stone, the land and the lake.

Emiliano Rodrigo Sacco - Argentina

Emiliano helped in his father's sculpture workshop from an early age. He studied painting at the National University of Rasario and from 1999-01 lectured in sculpture there. He currently works with his father at the Centre Urbano Cuidad de Roasario on a Cultural Integration Project through which they have created a Museum of Contemporary Art in the Open Air at Rodan.

This is part of a series which represent the body and the spirit and the birth of water. The position enables you to view the lake through the stone.

Maria Soledo Sacco - Argentina

Maria developed her interest in sculpture in a childhood spent around her father's sculpture studio. In 2004, in collaboration with her father, she put together the 'recuperArte' project for over 350 street childreen. Maria has participated in several international sculpture symposia at Puerto General San Martin, 'Puerto del Arte' and the city of Roldan.

I have worked with the concept to create a new world where poeple and society can work with the environment together as in the world of ants.

Pal Sandor Lakatos - Hungary

Pal graduated from the Fine Art Academy in Cluj, Romania and has subsequently built his career as a sculptor in stone and wood. He has exhibited widely on his own and in group shows in Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Romania, at the Galarie d'art Contemporain 'Expression Libre' in Paris and in New York.

I have worked with the layers of the slate. The idea is to make visible the nature of the stone to represent two layers moving against eash other as a geological moment.

Tom Gilhespy - Wales

Tom has exhibited extensively both in the UK and in Europe, and created the Lake Vyrnwy Sculpture Park in mid Wales which he built up over 9 years by holding an annual international sculpture symposium. He brings these skills to the Ellesmere Sculpture Symposium. His work is represented in the 'Permenant Collection' of the State Urban Culture Museum in St Petersburg.

This piece works with the strength of the stone and the fact that it has travelled by glacier. It is now restrained to the ground like a prisoner from the castle above.

 

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Trevor Clarke

After starting life as a photographer, Trevor studied Stone Carving at Dudley College and is now doing an MA at Wolverhampton University. This is Trevor's first public art exhibition. He is also working as part of the Symposium.

I work with the idea of a spiral. It can be read in two ways, a stone on a hill, a spiral within a spiral or it refers to the age of the stone with embedded fossil forms.

British Waterways Commission - The Ellesmere Gateway 2008

Sited along the canal the 3 pieces were inspired by the canal and associated industries, and were created by BenchArt, collaborative public art by two Shropshire artists:
Ruth Gibson - a graduate of Wolverhampton University in ceramics and
Sculpture Huw Powell - a professional potter, artist and sculptor.