Venue address: The Old Granary, Fitzalan Road, Arundel BN18 9JZ

 

Roy Exley is based in East Sussex. His work, as a sculptor, is involved principally with stone. He works reductively with a variety of stone types, including Portland Stone, Serpentine, Soapstone and Polyphant, creating small to medium-sized abstract sculptures whose forms are inspired by the modernist architecture of international architects such as Erich Mendelsohn, Serge Chermayeff, Berthold Lubetkin, Antonio Sant'Elia, the Tecton Group, and by the 'Suprematist' aesthetic that foreshadowed and underpinned their work.

 

He is working on a series of 'Architectonic' sculptures, deliberately retrospective in nature. Alongside their modernist aesthetic they also relate to the forms ad gestures that typified the 'Brutalist' archjitecture of the 1960's and 1970's. There is an anticipation in his work of a retrospective return to a modernist aesthetic in contemporary art. While referencing Brutalist architecture, his sculptures also play with a choreography of shallow and understated curved planes that diverge, converge, accelerate and decelerate through inter-related paths, and along edges, whose trajectories and interplay are energised by a sense of levity. This could be described as 'Baroque-Deco'.

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Tel: 07503 652602

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