MARK GOLDSWORTHY
Sculpture and Paintings
Opening day Saturday 15th July noon to 5pm
summer wines served
15th July to 13th August, 2017
Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm or by appointment


All works for sale |
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Where enquiries of prices are
made on the gallery, the work is subject to availability
and the price to change.
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Old Codger (two views)
Cedar wood
142 x 30 x 27 cm
£3,000 |
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All about the Base (two views)
Ancaster stone
72 x 28 x 22 cm
SOLD |
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Amy (two views)
Ancaster stone
48 x 17 x 18 cm
SOLD
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Chorus
Alabaster
33 x 32 x 10 cm
£2,500 |
Equus (two views)
Ancaster stone
48 x 38 x 20 cm
£2,200 |
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Rose of Persia (two views)
Clipsham stone
60 x 25 x 22 cm
£1,800 |
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My World (two views)
Ancaster stone
77 x 29 x 34 cm
£3,600 |
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Colossus (two views)
Portland stone
31 x 30 x 27 cm
SOLD
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Cob (two views)
Alabaster
24 x 40 x 18 cm
£2,400 |
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Rapture (two views)
Bronze edition of 10
39 x 21 x 11 cm
£2,400
SOLD number 1/10 |
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Sandra (two views)
Bronze edition of 10
36 x 18 x 22 cm
£2,400 |
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Yo (two views)
Bronze edition of 10 integral to base
24 x 8 x 9 cm
£1,200 |
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Yemeni (two views)
Stoneware
57 x 25 x 20 cm
£900 |
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Jack (two views)
Cedar wood
157 x 36 x 29 cm
£3,000
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Male Torso (two views)
Polyphant stone
36 x 13 x 12 cm
£1,600 |
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Silver Darlings (two views)
Serpentine stone
35 x 23 x 11 cm
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Natasha
Terracotta
53 x 40 x 27 cm
£1,200 |
Ancestor Figure (two views)
Wood, stone, gesso
170 x 102 x 56 cm
£3,600 |
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We Together (two views)
Ancaster stone
104 x 26 x 37 cm
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Fernande
Bronze edition of 10
12 x 39 x 17 cm
£2,100 |
Black Sheep (two views)
Springstone
29 x 43 x 18 cm
SOLD |
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With a Spring in the Step (two views)
Bronze edition of 10
39 x 24 x 24 cm
£2,400
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Mermaid (two views)
Polyphant stone
39 x 42 x 16 cm
SOLD |
Venus
Clipsham stone
35 x 27 x 58 cm
SOLD |
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Dance of the Ostrich Feathers
Oil on canvas
122 x 92 cm
£1,800 |
Burlesque
Oil on canvas
92 x 122 cm
£1,800 |
Captain Chaos
Oil on canvas
97 x 122 cm
£1,800 |
Dancers
Oil on canvas
66 x 122 cm
£1,800 |
Foxy
Oil on canvas
80 x 102 cm
£1,600 |
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Performance Break
Oil on canvas
122 x 122 cm
£1,800 |
Aerial hoop
Pastel
20 x 28 cm
SOLD
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Tonight’s performance
Pastel
28 x 23 cm
£400 |
Aerial hoop performer
Pastel
28 x 20 cm
£400 |
Dance of the Ostrich Feathers
Pastel
28 x 20 cm
£400 |
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Christmas Wrapping
Pastel
20 x 28 cm
£400
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Yellow Balloon
Pastel
22 x 30 cm
£400
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On Board Burlesque
Pastel
22 x 30 cm
SOLD
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Introduction by Louis de Berniere, Author.
Mark Goldsworthy is an artist who boldly establishes a presence in one’s life without any kind of fanfare. Anyone who drives past the village of Homersfield in North Suffolk will see a slightly worried looking man with a paddle in his hands, in a small boat, perched on the top of a tree trunk. It is so much a part of the landscape that it seems that it might have been there since time immemorial, to such an extent that some local people are surprised to see it when it is pointed out to them. Homersfield is on the River Waveney, so a small worried man in a boat is entirely appropriate. I have always felt that what worries him is being on the top of a tree trunk with the wrong equipment, rather than where he belongs, in the river.
I first became aware of Goldsworthy’s work because there was one such large carving in a garden in my village, on a lane normally travelled by only one or two people per diem. It became my habitual route home just because I liked the sculpture, and I was dismayed one day to find that it had been moved on.
Goldsworthy is an artisan artist with a powerful physical presence, whose work requires real craft and muscular strength. He makes beautifully proportioned gypsy caravans which are both practical, and beautifully carved. He will install carved barge boards on the gables of your house, or supply you with green men for the bosses of your beams, or mouldings made of resin for your ceiling, or a corbel table for your parapet. It might appear that he has three or four simultaneous careers, but I very much doubt if he sees it that way. Forks have three or four tines, and chairs have three or four legs, after all.
He says that his artistic work always begins with a feeling, and he then has to settle upon how that feeling is developed and expressed. For this he has a choice of painting, or carving in wood, alabaster and stone, or casting in bronze. In his workshop he has the maquettes for his sculptures, and I find them as interesting and enjoyable as the finished product, because you can see how concepts transform themselves during the creative process.
Goldsworthy’s paintings are full of life; not just with a human life, but also with that of animals and trees. They are the work of a countryman. He says that each of his eyes sees colours differently, so that the colours he settles upon are consequent upon which one is closed at the time of looking. However, his colours are certainly beyond realism; for example he might have patches of green or purple on the feathers of a white duck, but this would be how he conveys a sense of depth and shadow. Like most good artists he sees the colour behind the colour; where I would see green, he can see the brown or the lilac or the scarlet hidden within the green. Sometimes his lines are precise, and sometimes they are blurred and wavy, so that, in the former case, one is looking through a window at the world, and otherwise one is looking at a dream of it.
Characteristically (but certainly not always) he slightly distorts the familiar shapes of things so that we are challenged by seeing them in a new way. The paintings in this exhibition, with their strong swathes of unexpected colours, are inspired by the concept of the burlesque. They made me think of Degas’ paintings of dancers behind the scenes. The burlesque is all about entertaining people by means of irony, with an exaggeration that is comical on the surface but points to something tragic and sad when thought about at greater depth. There is an angularity to these figures which to me implies hunger or sickness, or the longing for something better and less superficial in this life, beyond projecting a persona or putting on a show, but this is always accomplished without sacrificing the natural exuberance of the subject.
His carvings are almost never angular, and Goldsworthy certainly doesn’t aspire to being a Giacometti. Although there is the practical business of finding the stone that fits the shape, or the shape that fits the stone, they are, I think, mainly the consequence of Goldsworthy’s joy in the natural pleasures of the hand as it runs on a curved surface. You get the same pleasure from running your hands over these sculptures as you do from stroking a horse, or the statues in Vigland’s Park in Oslo; but Goldsworthy’s figures are more curved and foreshortened, softened and rounded, than those of Vigland. They might remind you of the fertility figures of neolithic times, or of Celtic carvings, or the contemporary work of Emily Young, whose work I once characterised as being all about strength and gentleness. They have a mythic quality which implies a narrative that Goldsworthy has presumably already imagined, but which onlookers have to work out for themselves. Often they are in unusual postures, and frequently they have their eyes closed, as if it contemplation or ecstasy, or melancholy. Those whose eyes are open display the inscrutable expressions of those who can see something that we cannot. These figures are not about beauty or physical perfection, but are about the presentation of character, the privileging of presence over detail, the catching of mood rather than resemblance.
This exhibition is the result of three years’ work by an artist who is, happily, also a masterly craftsman. Goldsworthy is no pretentious naked emperor in pursuit of novelty. He is not clowning about, or jumping up and down crying ‘Look at me! Look at me!’ Goldsworthy invites us not to look at him, but at the world as he reshapes it, making a kind of poetry out of solid substance, and creating as many characters as a novelist.
MARK GOLDSWORTHY
Born 30.09.1962 |
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Educated at Wymondham College,Norfolk
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Foundation course at Great Yarmouth College of Art & Design
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Worked as deckhand aboard 130 foot sailing barque
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BA (Hons) Fine Art.Manchester Polytechnic
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Three month tour of European Galleries
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Leased and managed group studios St. Mary's works,Norwich
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Taught weekly life drawing class from studio
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Itinerant artist in South Africa
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Visit to the USA and New York galleries
Birth of daughter Holly
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Completed first hand made book of linocuts - Siddhartha
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Painting stage set for The Rolling Stones World Tour
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Formed the Broad Street Guild. A workshop of your craftsmen
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Married Jan,Art Therapist
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"The last few years has been a search for a simplified form and purity of
expression of the human spirit"
REVIEWS
20th April 1990 "Arts Review" Ray Ruston
29th May 1992 "The Guardian" Angella Johnson
July/August1992 " Images" Editorial
April 1993 The Guardian Art for sale The catalogue of British Art today
January 2000 "Woodcarving Magazine News"
July 2001 "Craftsman Magazine"
COMMISIONS
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foot sculpture 'Every seed is the future ' Holt Country Park
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Sculpture 'Yes No Why Because ' Holt Country Park, Norfolk
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Sculpture 'Sent from Heaven' The Front Row Arts Programme,Anglia TV
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Sculpture for North Walsham Town Council
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Sculpture 'Saint Martin's Day' ,CNS school,Norwich
Sculpture 'Saint Felix', Sandringham Estate, Norfolk
Sculpture 'River Story' Waveney District Council,Homersfield
Sculpture St Augustine's Healthy Living Centre,King's Lynn
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40 foot carved footbridge Highgate school, Kings Lynn
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Sculpture 'Mum, bags brook …' South Norfolk District Council
Sculpture 'Bear and Raven' Sandringham Estate, Norfolk
Sculpture 'Day Out' Whitlingham lane Country Park, Norfolk
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Sculpture 'St George', St Georges park,Great Yarmouth
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Sculpture 'Family Walk' The Walks,King's Lynn
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RESIDENCIES
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Artist in Residence, King's Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk
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Artist in Residence, Holt Country Park, Norfolk
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Artist in Residence, Ickworth House, Suffolk
Artist in Residence, Holt Country Park, Norfolk
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Residence with Gaspare de Brescia,San Pantaleo, Sardinia |
EXHIBITIONS
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Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester
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Print Show,Contact Gallery,Norwich |
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Galleries Gay, Dinard ,France
One man Show,The Assembly Rooms, Norwich |
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Centre d'Art Contemporaire, Rouen; France
One man show, Chappel galleries, Essex
Printworks, Colchester, Essex
Knapp gallery, London
The gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design
The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London
Galerie IV Gay, Dinard, France
Gallery 45, Norwich |
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Laing Art Competition, Ipswich
One man show, Contact Gallery, Norwich
One man show, King of Hearts, Norwich
Bankside Open Print Competition, London
One man show, L'Orangerie, Valenciennes, France
Artist in Residence, The Circus Project,King's Lynn
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Wilde Contemporary Art, Mall Galleries, London
One man show,The Old Workshop Gallery, Corpusty, Norfolk
Chappel Gallery, Essex
Splinter Gallery,London
Wilde Contemporary Art, South Audley Street Gallery, London
Fith Avenue, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Wilde Contemporary Art, The Hyde Park Gallery, London
Laing Art Competition, Bury St Edmunds & Mall Galleries
One man show, The Old Workshop Gallery, Corpusty,Norfolk
Art for Sale, Bayswater, London
Gallery 12B, Norway
Hall Gallery, London
Wilde Contemporary Art, Wasserturm, Vienna, Austria
Artist in Residence,Holt Country Park
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One man show, Chappel Gallery, Essex
Wilde Contemporary Art, Mall Galleries, London
Paul Fowler Studio, Yaohan Plaza, London
Open Drawing Competition, Cheltenham
Norfolk and Norwich Arts Festival, Norfolk
Unicorn Pictures, London
East West Gallery, London
Artist in Residence, Ickworth House, Suffolk
Artist in Residence, Holt Country Park
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Edith Grove Gallery, London
Sculpture Trail, Bergh Apton, Norfolk
John Innes Institute,Norwich
Utraque Lungo, Vienna, Austria
Art Connoisseur Gallery, London
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New York Art Fair, USA
Bergh Apton Sculpture Trail, Norfolk
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Martin Tinney Gallery at Cork
St, London
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British Art Fair, London
“Gold Medal Winners Exhibition, National
Eisteddfod”
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Royal National Eisteddfod
of Wales
Langham Fine Art, Bury St. Edmunds
Martin Tinney Gallery at Cork St., London
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Light and Space, Salthouse, Norfolk
One man show, Chappel Gallery, Essex
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Bergh Apton Sculpture Trail, Norfolk
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The Rooms Gallery, Llandeilo, Wales
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The Walled Garden, Loddon, Norfolk
Taith Contemporary Art, Wittgenstein Haus, Vienna
Snape Maltings, Suffolk
Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh
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Marks Hall, Coggeshall, Essex
The Walled Garden, Loddon, Norfolk
The Chapel, Norwich
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Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
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One man show, Chappel Gallery, Essex
Marks Hall, Coggeshall, Essex
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COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS
North Norfolk District Council
North Walsham Town Council
Waveney District Council
South Norfolk District Council
Norwich City Council
CNS school
Sandringham Estate
Bayfield Hall
Private collections in : United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Canada, South Africa
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