Publisher's Synopsis
The foremost interest of the sculptor Richard Deacon is in his material as a substance and, above all, its malleability. He uses these materials, such as steel, plastic, resin, glass, clay, copper, stone and aluminium, as manifestations of expression, 'as is the act of the work itself that concludes the undertaking.' Along with these unusual forms - biomorphic-like volumes, convoluted serpentine delineations and dynmaic entwinements - from the end of the 1990s the artist produced ceramic pieces finished in a great variety of glazes, thus combining painting and sculpture. The reader is not only given a fragmentary insight into the mental world of the artist, but can directly recapitulate how Deacon became a sculptor.
