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Douglas Bentham is a Canadian, whose monumental steel sculptures were shown at the APT Gallery on Creekside in September '07.
The work consists of two groups - one created in the Hardingham Workshop, Norfolk in 1990 and the other, bright steel, shipped over for this show from the artist's studio in Saskatchewan.
These are monumental sculptures with a very physical, even characterful presence, as if lifted from a play - the deep orange figures, made with the co-operation of the damp British climate have a robust, agricultural feel; in contrast to the more sophisticated, perhaps 'urban' attitudes of the recent work.
Bentham works outside (whenever weather permits) in a quite remote part of the country and says there is a collage element to the work, using found pieces (particularly evident in the Hardigham series) and phrases of shape and mark from the environment he works in. His objective is to create a dynamic, self-referential tension in the work in order to 'provoke the brain into wonder and awe, towards a moment of unexpected truth or beauty'.
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