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Dominic WELCH
(b.1970)
17/06/2009 - 11/07/2009
Messum's Cork Street
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This Summer, Messum’s will be holding our first long-awaited solo exhibition for the young sculptor Dominic Welch. Born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, Dominic Welch has moved from a county of wood to a region of stone, settling at Drewsteignton in Devon after securing a highly-productive apprenticeship with the sculptor Peter Randall-Page for the decade from 1989. Like Randall-Page, Welch is fascinated by fruit, seed and fossil shapes, helping to create what his tutor referred to as “vessels for life” in homage to both men’s heroes, Brancusi and Naguchi. When positioned outdoors on completion, these organic forms swiftly become part of the landscape. Developing his own distinctive style, Dominic Welch is now producing work in stone that is both fluent and fluid, as if the stone were swelling with inner life, flexing and stretching into new organic forms and structures. Exhibited widely at home and abroad, his sculpture features in many public and private collections. It is now part of many landscapes—even standing high above the breakers of Australia’s Bondi Beach.
Folllowing his solo exhibition in our Cork Street Gallery from 17 June to 11 July, sculptures by Welch will be available to view by appointment in the landscaped grounds of The Studio, Lord’s Wood, Buckinghamshire.
To make an appointment, please contact The Studio on 01628 486 565.
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