Tim Sandys-Renton

About the artist

Contemporary sculpture

Personal Statement

Tim produces both large and small sculptures, mostly welded out of hammered/bent steel or copper sheet. Newer works are generally abstract but allude to figures/bodies.
Themes:
• Decorative plates – inspired by Aboriginal shields and their ancestral patterns.
• Textiles ‘Patterns’ - cut, folded, bent, tailored like a good suit of clothing. Collars and pinstripes alluding to social structures.
• Narratives – simple texts referring to personal stories and memories.
• The Body - conceptual links via ideas of function, metaphorical links via. space, size, shape.
Approach: Tim sees making Art as a way of finding things out, making unexpected connections.
Inspiration: Tim takes particular inspiration from the British ‘Geometry of Fear’ sculpture movement from the 1950s (i.e. Paolozzi, Reg Butler and Lyn Chadwick) amongst others.
Tim is Programme Coordinator for the Fine Art BA at the University of Chichester.

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    Nutshell House, Mid-Lavant, West Sussex PO18 0BH

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    A286 in Mid-Lavant, grey house on left as heading north; 300m after Earl of March, 100m before St Nicholas’s church. BUS: Stagecoach no: 60, bus stop: ‘St Nicholas's Church.'

Tim Sandys-Renton

Nutshell House, Mid-Lavant, West Sussex PO18 0BH

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