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brass and copper on a wooden base 31cm high

Footnote: Anticipating his future creations, Bath based sculptor, Edward Willis, recalls a childhood memory of balancing spoons and knives precariously on the edge of his bowl, “absorbed by the process and at the same time aware of the inevitable impermanence of the achievement.” Although not strictly representational, Willis’ kinetic sculptures draw upon the botanical and the animal to create elegant, abstracted skeletal forms and, like the work of Alexander Calder, explore dichotomous themes of fragility and strength, stasis and rhythm, and tension and tranquillity. Unlike traditional static sculpture, the artist invites us to understand his works' suspended animations, interacting and reliant on the environment they inhabit.

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