Category: CREATIVITY

Geoffrey Clarke at the RA

Yesterday I had a great afternoon at the RA Summer Show. As  I was leaving with ten minutes to go before it closed, and thinking I’d  seen everything there was to see, I caught sight of the sculpture room (which was actually hard to miss!). I walked to the center of the room and did a 360 overview and … there was a Geoffrey Clarke piece on the wall. It was a piece I knew, TAUNTON DEANE CREMATORIUM TEST PANEL. (Item No 993 in the exhibition).

It’s better seen live, but all the work in the Summer Exhibition can be seen here.

A Test Piece shown at the RA Summer Show
A Test Piece shown at the RA Summer Show

Sculture Photos Move Ever Closer!!

Due to the wonderful photography of Walter Dirks we have some great photos of pieces of Geoffrey Clarke’s sculpture ‘Extraction and Refining of Oil‘. The beginning of a project to record the work …

An extract from 'The Chemist's Table'
Two panels from ‘The Chemist’s Table’
Two panels from the tableau on the chemical additives process to make lubricant oils
Two panels from the tableau on the chemical additives process to make lubricant oils
A single panel from the huge frieze section representing speed
A single panel from the huge frieze section representing speed

Blown Away by Beauty

So I trawled around London all day on Friday, rushing from events to meetings to stations – and pretty exhausted after a 5.30am start I arrived mid-afternoon in the park facing my house.

All that was left for me to do was to hike the last few hundred meters across the park to my front door.

Through this. Blown away. Had to pause …