VISUAL ART: Sculpture and Painting
by Stuart J Young
Prayers
In Prayers Stuart J Young explores the calligraphy of sacred text. Some of these works are akin to mandalas, whilst others seem to open up voids and unknown universes. Using Indian ink, watercolour and natural pigment on paper Young’s works convey fragility through embodied, visible language.
In a concentrated, mindful state my haptic making enters a space between human and ‘other’.
Prayers are currently on show at
Balabrook Retreat House on Dartmoor.
All images and ideas © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
Tenuous
This series of work began in Germany some ten years ago. The sculptures are slender and fine and embody an almost immaterial quality of being and relating. There is an uneasy movement and inscription of space, as though their bodies make the air around them tremble, perhaps from being pierced.
Tenuous tabletop-sized sculptures is made from papermache and formally explores movement and tension between two or three lines or abstracted figures. They are informed by observations of plants, animals and humans in relational, somatic, gestural interactions. There is something vulnerable about these works as they allude to fragility and temporality, perhaps to an impending demise. Tenuous has been envisaged as models for life-size sculptures or utopian architectures.
They compliment still points in installations of Goldhahn’s MoverWitness dance films.
All images, ideas and texts © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
Stuart J Young also develops a body of sculptural works inspired by the classical modern period’s sculptors (such as Jean Arp and Henry Moore). Stuart J Young carves figures directly in wood for example in apple or holly or in plaster, which can be cast in metal or ciment fondue, pigmented with ochres, siennas and polished beeswax or simply painted.
Stuart J Young / Exhibitions:
Poolhaus Blankenese, Hamburg
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, Dudley, Midlands
Chapel Gallery @ Saltram House, National Trust, Plympton
Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth
The Ariel Centre, Totnes, Devon
Skulpturengruppe, Minden, Westfalia
Keitumer Skulpturentage, Sylt, Germany
KunstRaum Weissenohe, Nürnberg
Open Studios, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Frankfurt
Delamore Arts, Dartmoor, Devon
Artist Residency Pfälzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes
Poolhaus Blankenese, Hamburg
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, Dudley, Midlands
Chapel Gallery @ Saltram House, National Trust, Plympton
Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth
The Ariel Centre, Totnes, Devon
Skulpturengruppe, Minden, Westfalia
Keitumer Skulpturentage, Sylt, Germany
KunstRaum Weissenohe, Nürnberg
Open Studios, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, Frankfurt
Delamore Arts, Dartmoor, Devon
Artist Residency Pfälzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes
All images and ideas © Eila Goldhahn & Stuart J Young 2024
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