VISUAL ART: Sculpture and Painting
by Stuart J Young
Prayers
In Prayers Stuart J Young explores the writing and painting of sacred text. In a concentrated, mindful state haptic making can enter a relationship beween human and ‘other’. Some of the calligraphic works are akin to mandalas, whilst others open up voids and unknown universes. Using Indian ink, watercolour and natural pigment on paper Young’s works convey fragility through embodied, visible language. This work cycle continues to be prompted by the suffering and urgency of our times.
All images and ideas © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
Tenuous
This series of work began in Germany in 2011 and is continued to date. The sculptures are very slender and fine and embody an almost immaterial quality of being and relating. There is an uneasy movement and inscription of space, as though the sculptures make the air around them tremble, perhaps from being pierced. Stuart J Young’s series of tabletop-sized sculptures is made from papermache and formally explores movement and tension between two or three lines or abstracted figures. This cycle of work is informed by observations of plants, animals and humans in their relational, somatic ‘dances’ and gestural interactions. There is something vulnerable about these works as they seem to allude to the fragility and temporality of nature and life, perhaps to an impending demise. The series can be envisaged as models for life-size sculpture or utopian architecture.
All images, ideas and texts © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
Stuart J Young developed a body of sculptural works inspired by the classical modern period and with its great sculptors such as Jean Arp and Henry Moore. Stuart J Young carved figures directly in wood (for example apple or holly-wood) or, alternatively into plaster, which is then cast in ciment fondue, pigmented with ochres, siennas and polished beeswax or simply painted.
All images and ideas © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
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Exhibitions:
Poolhaus Blankenese, Hamburg
Aby Warburg Haus, Hamburg
Dudley Museum & Art Gallery
Chapel Gallery @ Saltram House, National Trust, Plympton
Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery
The Ariel Centre, Totnes, Devon
Skulpturengruppe, Minden, Westfalia
Keitumer Skulpturentage, Sylt
KunstRaum Weissenohe, Nürnberg
Open Studios, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Frankfurt
Delamore Arts, Dartmoor, Devon
Artist Residency Pfälzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein
Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes
Poolhaus Blankenese, Hamburg
Aby Warburg Haus, Hamburg
Dudley Museum & Art Gallery
Chapel Gallery @ Saltram House, National Trust, Plympton
Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery
The Ariel Centre, Totnes, Devon
Skulpturengruppe, Minden, Westfalia
Keitumer Skulpturentage, Sylt
KunstRaum Weissenohe, Nürnberg
Open Studios, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Frankfurt
Delamore Arts, Dartmoor, Devon
Artist Residency Pfälzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein
Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes
All images and ideas © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
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