The Field

Art in the field

T a time when hysterical mass media has written off life as we knew it, sculptor Theodore Gillick is calm. “The future is going to happen anyway,” he comments, “but how am I going to march into it?” Having spent lockdown building his own foundry because his regular bronze works had shut, Gillick is now equipped to forge ahead. “That changes everything in terms of what we can make. So at the moment I am exploring it. I can do so

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