Title: Donkey
Medium: Bronze and stone
Unframed: 70cm
Angus Taylor is widely known for his sculptures of bronze, stainless steel, and stone. His choice of medium is always very deliberate and essentially forms the basis of the artwork’s concept. A wonderful explanation of the use of stone has been given in the catalogue written for his 2017 exhibition: In the middle of it. “The brief span of human presence, juxtaposed with the timelessness of stone, poignantly contrasts transience and permanence. Stone forms an integral part of the human story; a deeply embedded slow release of meaning; a conveyer of a sense of deep time and deep consciousness… He believes his medium – the mediator between his ideas and artworks – holds no truth or agenda except to express experience and tell a story that might assist the viewer in formulating his or her own story” (Everard Read 2017:3).
