Collection
Bond
Alan Thornhill (b. 1921)
Bond
bronze
1.97 m high
1983
Bond was inspired by the surge of non-violent protest in the early 1980s. 'My sculptures are concerned with the ordinary but diverse human predicament and stand, I hope, as a reminder of our shared complex humanity. They are improvised rather than pre-conceived and are built with randomly pre-formed non-representational shapes made in firmed-up coarsely textured clay, which is the material I have always loved to work with. The process is one of interplay with material in which the intervention of the unconscious with its attendant ambiguities and seeming improbabilities is obediently heeded. The work gradually evolves as an act of faith from an abstract into a figurative or at least an organic statement in accord with my general aspiration; to arrive by an uncharted route at images which are striking and affective' (Artist's statement).