Archer was interested in it as a site in which base material (bronze) was turned into art (sculpture), and sought to incorporate this process into the sculpture by the addition of salt in the bottom of the crucible. This latter element was cast from a crucible used in the University's sculpture workshop in 2001. It consists of a striking hunk of Kirkstone Green Slate from the Lake District in which sits a bronze crucible. Installed in 2001 to mark the opening of the Stewart Mason Building, Skellig takes its name from two small rocky islands off the west coast of Ireland, home to an early Christian Monastery. Kirkstone green slate, bronze and salt, 2001 The bronze element was conserved by Lowri Davies of 3D Conservation in the summer of 2022 with the aid of a grant from the Henry Moore Foundation. The sculpture's stone elements were cleaned using a superheated water in early 2020. Per Saeculi Quartum replaced a previous work on this site: Man and Child by Ralph Brown, which was vandalized beyond repair in the 1980s. Other notable commissions include the Ouseburn Lock Gates in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and sculptures in London, Cardiff and Cambridge. The bronze sits on the second segment to symbolise the then forthcoming quarter of a century, ‘with all the intentions and possibilities for the future implicit in this.’Īrcher taught at Loughborough College of Art and Design, which was amalgamated into the University in 1998 and along with colleagues including John Atkin and Paul Wager was part of ‘The Loughborough Group’ of sculptors. The winning entry from an open competition, Archer described the fractured circular stone base as representing a hundred years. Per Saeculi Quartum ('Through a Quarter of a Century') was commissioned by the University in 1991 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the granting of a Royal Charter, which transformed Loughborough College of Technology into Loughborough University of Technology (the ‘of Technology’ was dropped in 1996). Solo exhibitions of his artistic work have been held at Centre Pompidou, Paris MoMA, New York and the Barbican, London and he has been involved in the design of public and commercial buildings across the world. He has designed for companies including Swarovski, Adidas, Fiat, Samsung, Bombay Sapphire and Le Coq Sportif. Ron Arad is a British-Israeli industrial designer, artist and architect ural designer.
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