Landsec 80 & 100 Victoria Street: In collaboration with Landsec and Osborne Samuel Gallery presenting artist Sean Henry.
As part of Landsec's commitment to further enhance the reception areas within their office portfolio, A Space for Art are delighted to collaborate with Osborne Samuel Gallery and present an installation of sculptures by Sean Henry at 80 - 100 Victoria Street.
For further works and information, visit Osborne Samuel and Sean Henry Website
About the Artist
British sculptor Sean Henry (born 1965, Woking, Surrey) models his figures in clay before they are cast in bronze. Then he paints them. His work has helped revive the age-old custom of polychrome, i.e. multi-coloured sculpture. The tradition stems from Antiquity, when marble statues were painted in colour.
Henry's technique is striking and vivid. In public spaces, his naturalist figures are conspicuous, just as his sculptures are both lifelike and theatrical. They are reflections of ourselves and enhance our experience with life in our own world.
Henry likes to keep the identity of his figures anonymous and their meaning ambiguous. He deliberately makes them either smaller or larger than life size to engage with what he calls “the psychology of scale”. These changes in scale leave imaginative space for the viewer to encounter the sculptures on their own terms.
While his work can be seen in many locations around the world, Henry is particularly engaged by the chance to connect with local people, communities and public spaces. He says “At the heart of many of my projects are the people who live, work or visit the sites and respond; who discover within the figures something about themselves.”
Henry’s work can be seen in the permanent collections of museums and galleries across Europe and the USA. These include the newly re-opened National Portrait Gallery in London, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Ekebergparken Sculpture Park in Oslo, Norway, and Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens in Michegan, USA.
In London you can also find examples of his public artwork in Holland Park, Canary Wharf, Paddington Central and One Basinghall Avenue.
“Historically and certainly from history up to the Renaissance, nearly all sculpture was painted… in the modern age, and with the volume of mass media and images that surround us, to me it seems quite natural to use colour on sculpture.” - Sean Henry
