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Philip Hearsey creates beautiful objects that ease into a space between pure form and purpose.
Sculpture is mostly of an intimate scale intended for interiors of home, office or hotel and comprises one-off pieces, variations in series or small editions.
Whereas bronze is most often used to reproduce a work originally conceived in another medium, Philip Hearsey uses the sand-casting process to create vessel forms that honour and explore the qualities of bronze as a material in its own right.
Vessels are solid and heavy: formed using the sand-casting process. The procedure requires a solid original pattern [of which the final casting is a replica] to form a hollow impression in sand into which molten bronze is poured.
The work does not exist as any meaningful entity before it appears in bronze. Until then it is simply a casting pattern, a tool to be used in imagining the idea into a 3-dimensional reality.
The sand casting process is relentless and unforgiving – the patterns must withstand considerable abuse – the sand foundry is no place for a delicate original. It is also restrictive and, denying complexity of form, imposes a simplicity that is both disciplinary and at the same time, enriching.
Each casting roughly replicates the original pattern but requires considerable work to refine and finish the surface and form. Sometimes the casting is cut, pierced or individually shaped to create a unique version and although born from a common original, a truly one-off piece.
The rim is critical; it is the interface between the container and that which is contained - it is most usually bright polished and not only reveals the beauty, colour and solidity of the material but crucially exemplifies any asymmetry or dichotomy between the outer surface of the piece as a whole, the “container”, and the space or void that is contained.
Patination presents challenging, unpredictable and seemingly endless possibilities. Although based on sound chemical principles it nevertheless involves a degree of uncontrollable mystery, chance, accident and risk: no two pieces are, or ever will be, quite the same.
The colouring is not a coating, it is the surface itself: it is a transformation of the material, by the material, and is an outward manifestation and celebration of the bronze.
Elegant objects result that do not rely solely upon their intrinsic beauty: they possess an essential presence and resonance.
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Avian IIBronze on an oak baseN..
£750.00 Ex Tax: £625.00
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Bun - Real bronzeOxidised fin..
£300.00 Ex Tax: £250.00
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Chip - Real bronzeGreen oxidi..
£285.00 Ex Tax: £237.50
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Comma - Real bronzeOxidised f..
£275.00 Ex Tax: £229.17
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Double StrandBronzeEdition of ..
£750.00 Ex Tax: £625.00
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Fluttering - Real bronze freely rotati..
£375.00 Ex Tax: £312.50
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.BronzeStamped with monogram signat..
£495.00 Ex Tax: £412.50
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.BronzeStamped with monogram signat..
£675.00 Ex Tax: £562.50
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Operatic Cone - Real bronzeOx..
£250.00 Ex Tax: £208.33
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Porballo - Real bronzeOxidised fin..
£250.00 Ex Tax: £208.33
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.BronzeStamped with monogram signat..
£575.00 Ex Tax: £479.17
This is a Bronze Sculpture by the sculptor Philip Hearsey.Waking - Real bronzeStamped with m..
£450.00 Ex Tax: £375.00
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