Size: 51cm H x 30cm Circular Diameter Base
Media: Fired Clay, baked porcelain,
oil based paint, glass paint
on wooden base
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Size: 24cm H Base: 35cm circular base
Media: Fired clay, gold leaf, acrylic, bitumen,
resin coated on mirror and stained wooden base
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Size: Figure approx. 20cm H
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Size: 38cm square base x 13cm D
$300
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Size: 70cm H / Base 38.5cmm W x 38.5cm L
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Size: Approx. 35cm sided triangle
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Size: 59cm H Base: 22.5cm square
Media: Fired clay, gold leaf, glitter, bitumen,
Faux Patina, varnish
on stained and varnished wooden base.
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“Afternoon of a Faun” (after Nijinsky) 2021
Artist: Neville Williams / Model: Charles
Size: 44cm H / Base 33cm square
Media: Fired clay, lacquer, red bole
gold leaf on wooden base
$500
This seductive harlequin has been through so many manifestations I have lost count.
I think though that here he has finally found his place.
In his latest incarnation he appears as a Nijinsky figure wearing the costume
from the dancer’s own choreographed ballet “Afternoon of a Faun”.
The original ballet possesses erotic, guttural expression and startled audiences.
An extraordinarily gifted dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky eventually took on too much for his fragile being to be able to handle. He didn’t know his own limitations.
He ended up in an asylum which did no one any good most of all Nijinsky. His partner/lover Sergei Diaghilev who established the famous Ballets Russes based in Paris fell out of love with his paramour. Difficult to love someone who has lost it.
Diaghilev eventually didn’t want to have anything to do with what Nijinsky had become…as the French say…an ‘enfant terrible’. Though Diaghilev wouldn’t have been an easy character to be with either. I guess the lesson is keep your feet on the ground, enjoy what yoo can do or perhaps better as Socrates said “Know thyself”.
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PINK NAPOLEON (a.k.a. Pink Narcissus) [2024]
Media: Fired clay, mixed media
on wooden and metal base
Size: 67cm (H) x 24cm square base
$400
This is one of those sculptures that I keep reworking and am almost happy with the way he/she him/her they/them is presenting. Though the figure does need more pink*.
The message here is about masculine and feminine energies and parity between the two.
Both are doing it hard at the moment.
Both exist in each of us whether male, transgender or female.
Boy O’ boy (or Sheee’z) are things out of balance presently.
What a tug of war is going on inside and outside of people.
To explain the sculpture here...
Paradoxically this Napoleon looks feminine or at the least ‘effete’ (and so, the ever so ‘Barbie’ pink colouring). If you turn him around and look at the back side of him though the machinery of war makes up the content of his innards or character.
We need both male and female energies in our world.
Each has their place and role to make good.
But all in good balance.
"Narcissistic posturing is just so yesterday Barbie!" - KEN. Blah! -NW
* I shall add more pink as the feminine asserts itself.
