Paul Selwood

Paper cut outs - taking off the page - free standing 3D objects - free standing

"His classes were mostly around modelling the life figure but he encouraged you to move into various other ways of seeing the figure. We had Godfrey Miller for instance as a drawing teacher, and the kind of drawing he was doing at the time and the way we were learning to draw the figure in his class, I wanted to translate into the sculpture class, so that the figure became more of a gesture with the positioning of various elements, the simplification I suppose."

"From the very beginning with my geometric forms, pinning them together, I was considering the spaces between, seeing them as positive elements in the sculpture. The actual physical form of the sculpture was forming the edge if you like, forming the shape, so you then had a form of space juxtapositioned against a form of material. That was something very early in my work."

Construction of a 3D object - using flat cut outs? In similar approach to Selwood?