Ship ,1989
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Notes : David Brown started using bronze casting in his artistic process following encouragement from his father-in-law, Cecil Skotnes, to pursue sculpture as a medium. Brown began by making a series of ‘war machines’, which he carved directly into wax rather than making moulds from shaped clay. He favoured this method as it resulted in each work having a visual potency and high resolution—as if the artist had in fact sculpted the bronze while it was red hot and malleable. In 1988, Brown began the series, Voyages, a group of bronze sculptures made up of different satirical forms of ships—as a critical reference to their role as the transporters of slaves and colonial endeavours. These are not ships that sail the seas lightly with the wind, but the type that sail heavy as would a tank if it had an ore and a pent-up crew hyped-up on violence.In 1989, David Brown was the winner of the AA Mutual Life VITA Art Now Award.
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