TERENCE COVENTRY

Cover : Large Goat II

88 cm high Bronze, edition of 5

Right: Large Goat I

158 cm high Bronze, edition of 4

Published by New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1HE

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Copyright ©2013 New Craftsman Gallery.Portrait photography: Peter HarrisImages courtesy of Gallery Pangolin

ISBN: 978-0-9926590-1-1

TERENCE COVENTRY

14 September – 12 October 2013

NEW CRAFTSMAN GALLERY24 Fore Street · St Ives

Cornwall TR26 1HE

01736 795652

www.newcraftsmanstives.com

The full exhibition can be viewed on our website.

All work is for sale from receipt of this catalogue.

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Cor-ten Owl

67.5 cm high Cor-ten steel, unique

TERENCE COVENTRY

The sculptural work ofTerence Coventry is rooted in a strong

figurative tradition, and his distinctive works explore a fundamental

relationship with his environment and the familiar forms of his life on

the rural Lizard Peninsula.

Trained at the Royal College of Art in the late 1950s, Coventry

later turned his back on the art world and spent a quarter of a

century farming near Coverack inWest Cornwall before returning to

sculpture in 1985.

Regarded as one of the country’s foremost contemporary

sculptors, he exhibits regularly at Gallery Pangolin, London and as far

away as NewYork.

This 2013 New Craftsman exhibition is the first showing of

Coventry’s sculpture within his home county of Cornwall for over

twenty years.

His powerful and often huge scale, faceted sculptures of human

figures, couples, horses, goats, dogs, birds, boar and cattle are works of

extraordinary presence.With an eye for the essence of shape,

movement and poise unique to any one creature, Coventry is able to

distil his observations into pure and utterly convincing forms.Whether

in motion or stillness, his sculptural works and exquisitely rendered

drawings capture a visual moment that the rest of us may only

register unconsciously.

Constructed variously in steel, Cor-ten steel and bronze, both the

material and subject of Coventry’s sculpture are expressive of the

agricultural history of both our past and present, and are a reminder

of the precious relationship we hold with each other, our fellow

creatures and our rural environments.

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Balanced Man Maquette

46 cm high Bronze, edition of 10

Vital Man 1

21 cm high Bronze, edition of 10

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Couple III

29 cm high Bronze, edition of 10

Couple 1

59.5 x 84 cm Charcoal on paper Unique

Standing Couple

59.5 x 84 cm Charcoal on paper Unique

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Vital Man III

57.5 cm high Bronze, edition of 10

Woman with Hands Behind Her Head

32 cm high Forged steel, unique

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Vital Man V

30.5 cm highBronze, edition of 10

Talking Couple

32 cm highBronze, edition of 10

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Hound

84 x 60 cm Photographic print on watercolour paper, edition of 30

Dog

59.5 x 84 cm Charcoal on paper Unique

Sitting Hound

43 cm high Matt lacquered powder coated steel, unique

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New Riders

64 cm high Bronze, edition of 10

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Rider I

63 cm highBronze, edition of 10

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Turning Bull

33 cm high Bronze, edition of 10

Bull

60 x 84 cm Photographic print on watercolour paper, edition of 30

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Standing Bull III

39 cm high Bronze, edition of 10

Woman with Bull

47 cm high Steel, unique

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Winged Form

60 cm high Fabricated bronze, unique

Raven

32.5 cm high Bronze, edition of 10

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Avian Form

38 cm high Steel, unique

Winged Form Series

83 cm high Fabricated bronze, unique

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Choughs

63.5 x 85 cm Photographic print on watercolour paper, AP

Avian Form VI

29 cm highBronze edition of 10

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