Description
*Price is per sculpture. Sensible offers considered.
Well you don’t see one of these every day… and here we have two!
An incredible pair of ‘Bag Man’ sculptures by revered British artist, Steven Gregory.
These unsettling, nightmarish forms are from a 1993 edition of 9, and although at first glance appear to be hewn from rock, they are in fact sculpted from bronze.
Their subtlety textured surfaces are beautifully oxidised in blue and green tones, while their insectile limbs and sullen, angular faces play with the light and cast sinister shadows in the sun.
Originally acquired from a country estate in the Cotswolds, one has metal plate attachments allowing it to stand in shallow water and seemingly ‘float’ on its surface.
It is hand signed by Gregory on one of its feet.
Blue Bagman H121cm (signed)
Green Bagman H127cm (unsigned)
Available individually or as a pair, and fully Insured UK delivery is included in the price.
Price is per sculpture, so if buying individually please specify which one you would like.
Viewings and collection welcome in London SE24.
Sensible offers will be considered, so please contact me with any queries.
*Born in South Africa, Steven Gregory studied sculpture at St Martin’s School of Art, London and went on to complete a stone mason’s apprenticeship, which led him to work on Westminster Abbey and other historic buildings.
Committed to mastering traditional skills and materials, he works with a range of materials including precious metals, bronze, Perspex and mixed media, as well as human bones.
Gregory has responded to cultural currents with a postmodern eye a dashing sense of satire. Fish on a Bicycle (1998) is a witty response to the feminist dictum ‘A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle’; the sinister Bag Men (1993) animate the humble paper bag as bogey men; and his Paparazzi (1996) are subsumed by their apparatus.
Artist Damien Hirst owns several Gregory pieces and wrote a foreword for his exhibition, Skulduggery, in 2005.
“Steven Gregory… creates art that prods and pokes, ignores and strokes and slaps and stuns us into submission. My own personal favourites are the real human skull and bone pieces where just as many humans and pre-humans have done before us for tens of thousands of years, he uses decoration to try to deal with the complexity of human death, a brave attempt to celebrate the unimaginable.”
