Oak and Iron
Touring exhibition
The Wern Manor, 2018
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 2016
COAST Festival of Art, Banff. 2015
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, St John's Church, Edinburgh. 2015
Generator Projects, Dundee. 2015
Coopland Space, London. 2015
New Glasgow Society, Glasgow. 2015
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Touring exhibition
The Wern Manor, 2018
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. 2016
COAST Festival of Art, Banff. 2015
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, St John's Church, Edinburgh. 2015
Generator Projects, Dundee. 2015
Coopland Space, London. 2015
New Glasgow Society, Glasgow. 2015
View exhibition catalogue
The Times - Visual Arts Scotland Exhibition CONVERGE
"Theo Shields work returns us to the visceral, the atavistic and the elemental. His work is part installation, part sculpture and part document. A woodworker’s bench, complete with tools, also houses a video screen showing two short films – about furniture maker Chris Scotland and Fraser Waugh, the last trained green sand mouldmaker in Scotland, whose foundry specialises in architectural conservation. Shields has combined the raw materials used by these craftsmen and forced them into dialogue by pouring molten iron into chunks of hewn oak. The resulting works show a kind of trauma and beauty: the ‘negative’ space of a hollowed out tree-trunk of now preserved in a ‘positive’ iron object..." read more
Giles Sutherland Published at 12:01AM, February 6 2016
"Theo Shields work returns us to the visceral, the atavistic and the elemental. His work is part installation, part sculpture and part document. A woodworker’s bench, complete with tools, also houses a video screen showing two short films – about furniture maker Chris Scotland and Fraser Waugh, the last trained green sand mouldmaker in Scotland, whose foundry specialises in architectural conservation. Shields has combined the raw materials used by these craftsmen and forced them into dialogue by pouring molten iron into chunks of hewn oak. The resulting works show a kind of trauma and beauty: the ‘negative’ space of a hollowed out tree-trunk of now preserved in a ‘positive’ iron object..." read more
Giles Sutherland Published at 12:01AM, February 6 2016
Bronze Ellipse. Oak, Bronze. 50x50x60cm. 2015
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Cleft Oak. Oak, iron. 100x60x50cm. 2015
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Oak and Iron is a study on the impact of molten iron on the form and integrity of wood, casts have been taken from the inner cavity of a fire-hollowed log; as hot iron is poured into a slab of oak, the metal and wood reject each other, burning and bending until fusing as one. The end product is ultimately a conversation between these two raw materials.
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Chris Scotland
Chris Scotland is a member of the Scottish Furniture Makers’ Association, a diverse group of bespoke makers. They aim to promote the finest craftsmanship and develop a public awareness of contemporary furniture design in Scotland. More info.. |
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Fraser Waugh
Fraser Waugh’s (Edinburgh Cast Metals) is the last trained Green Sand Mould-maker in Scotland, a trade central to Scottish architectural history. His work keeps a dying trade alive on a daily basis. Edinburgh Cast Metals is now one of the last foundries producing traditional and contemporary ironwork in Scotland. |
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More films by Douglas Caldow: douglascaldow.co.uk