Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, label on base;
Private Collection, Perth
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Inge King
Flight, c. 1992 - 1993
SOLD
Catalogue number: 7
Fabricated steel
93.50 x 45.00 x 35.00
Stamped ‘IK’ on base
Judith Trimble, Inge King: Sculptor, Craftman House, 1996, see p 161 for the larger version Orpheus
‘In 1992-93 the dance gave way to gymnastics with Orpheus (ill. 105) and then Handstand.... An effective comparison is offered between her bird forms of the fifties and Orpheus, 1993. Where the earlier bird forms were streamlined, sleek and elegant, they lacked the powerful energy Orpheus embodies. Here is a new bird form worthy of the name of the god whose music and singing charmed wild animals, stones, and even Hades, and whose ‘wings’ recall the shape of his instrument, the lyre. Like an eagle alighting upon a tree, the long, sloping shapes and edges remind us of the mythological figure’s descent to the underworld to retrieve Euridice. This may be a fanciful interpretation as King often chooses titles for her sculptures after their completion, names usually suggesting themselves as the work develops.’ Trimble op. cit.
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Since its establishment in 1984, the Charles Nodrum Gallery’s exhibition program embraces a diversity of media and styles - from painting, sculpture & works on paper to graphics and photography; from figurative, geometric, gestural, surrealist & social comment to installation & conceptually based work.