"SET ME FREE" ARIEL FROM SHAKESPEARE'S THE TEMPEST
Depicting the very moment of ARIEL's release from his bonds of servitude. This beautiful Shakespearean character from THE TEMPEST - an embodiment of the ethereal free-spirit - spends the entire play quietly yearning for his freedom. Originally imprisoned "in a cleft pine" by his own mother - the Witch: Sycorax - he is found and freed by the recently ship-wrecked Duke of Milan, Prospero, a powerful Alchemist, who promises the spirit his eventual freedom in exchange for his help.
And so, once again, the free-spirit is bound, this time in servitude, and it is not until the very end of the play that he is finally set free.
Kate Newlyn's sculpture depicts him finally taking his leave. A tender moment of sadness and gratitude, felt by both Prospero and Ariel as they part, echoed in the lovely lines "Farewell my delicate Ariel". Ariel's focus remans on Prospero as he begins his ascent into his natural element, the air, the draped material supporting the figure, suspending him, almost freed from earthly constraints, whilst still echoing the bonds which had held him.
As Shakespeare's last complete play, it has been proposed by a number of Shakespearean scholars that the character of ARIEL embodies also the spirit of Shakespeare's own artistry and that in Prospero's final liberation of the spirit, expressed in the last words of the play: "Set Me Free", Shakespeare is also saying his own farewell to the stage.
Figure cast in Bronze. (Ltd edition: 25) Wing of wire and thread
Size: 68cm x 25cm x 7cm
Price: £1,950 (Also available in Bronze Resin, Ltd Ed: 50, Price: £590)
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating (please use side bar to scroll down further) On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with the doggy life and torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's ICARUS, for instance, how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash; the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
(Also available in Bronze Resin - see Ltd Edition Bronze Resin category)
Size: 60cm x 10cm x 2cm
Price: Bronze: £2,000
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Originally sculpted on a piece of driftwood found just of the coast of Crete this was the first in a series of relief wall sculptures depicting the boy who flew too close to the sun.
"The scoring sun so close Softened the fragrant wax that bound his wings; The wax melted; his waving arms were bare; Unfledged, they had no purchase on the air, And calling to his father as he fell, The boy was swallowed in the blue sea's swell.."
(Extract from Ovid's "METAMORPHOSIS" LINES 227-232)
PRICE: £550 (Also available in Bronze Resin: £350)
Inspired by a trip to Ephesus through a mountain gorge where rocks and boulders, split by earthquakes and weathered by time offered up images of figures. One such boulder stood out from the others suggesting that of a loving couple; two parts of one still standing together.
Missing as I was, my twin sister, I borrowed this image and refined it further in my studio.
Although it was created to describe a strong sibling relationship it also speaks more widely of love, marriage, partnership and friendship.
This image also carries a resonance of the Chinese Yin/Yang concept; the coexistence of two opposites. In this light the "Whole" can be seen as a single entity, the wholeness of the individual, the perfect harmony of balanced opposites to which we all aspire.
