The Word at Roche
August 3 - September 17 2023
Celebrating Looking, Thinking and Speaking
Stone carvings and wall hangings
The beauty of letters influenced by David Jones, René Hague, Gary Breeze and many others.
Phyllida Barlow
X's, 2010
Two polystyrene sculptures clad with a scrim cement sealant
86 x 86 x 70 cm; and 89 x 87 x 72 cm
2ft 9 ⅞ x 2ft 9 ⅞ x 2ft 3 ½ in; and 2ft 11 x 2ft 10 ¼ x 2ft 4 ¼ in.
Ed Allington
Phyllida Barlow
Gary Breeze
Sebastian Brooke
Trevor Clarke
Shirin Guild
René Hague
Dom Sylvester Houedard
Alec Peever
Jonathan Michael Ray
Edmund de Waal
Meical Watts
Edward Allington
Heraclitus DXLIYA, 1992
Ink and emulsion on ledger paper on canvas
183 x 122 x 6 cm / 72 x 48 x 2 ⅓ in.
Sebastian Brooke
Let Him Accept the Water of Life with Thanks, 1999
Bath stone
103 x 47 x 10 cm / 3ft 5 x 1ft 7 x 4 in.
Amoris ergo / cantum ab al/ite aufero:
mi/randam te, te / maxime
mirab/ilem approbo.
So I take from the bird a song of love:
I praise you as wonderful,
as marvellous in the highest degree.
‘And so I’m borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you’re marvellous
Too marvellous for words.’
Lyrics from the song Too Marvellous For Words
written by Johnny Mercer.
Dom Sylvester Houédard
Rock Sand Tide, 1964
First edition handprinted linocut
by Simon Verity, Daneway/Openings
Frame: 66 x 97 cm /
2ft 2 x 3ft 2 ¼ in.
NFS
Edmund de Waal
who shall I listen to, V, 2018
1 porcelain vessel, 1 porcelain shard, 1 alabaster fragment, 1 alabaster block and gold leaf in an aluminium and plexiglass vitrine
15 x 21 x 10 cm / 5 ⅞ x 8 ¼ x 4 in.
Trevor Clarke
It is not the work itself it is to keep oneself in condition to do it that is difficult, 2009
Quote from Brancusi - Brancusi: Modern Masters by Eric Shanes
Welsh slate
154 x 64 cm / 5ft x 2ft 2 in.
Trevor Clarke
Opportunity seldom knocks twice, 2008
Hopton wood and limestone
99 x 45 x 33 cm / 3ft 3 x 1ft 6 x 1ft 1 in.
Meical Watts
Llechen Slate, 1998
Welsh Slate
152 x 10 x 2.5 cm / 3ft 4 ½ x 4 x 1 in.
Kate Owen
You May Determine, 2000
Welsh Slate
31 x 96 x 2 cm / 1ft x 3ft 1 ¾ x ¾ in.
You may determine the length of the wings that a man
must use if he wants to fly; since the length of a swallow’s
wing is about twice the length of its whole body, the length
of a wing for a man of 5 feet must be 10 feet. The rest can
readily be deducted. Nevertheless many other kinds of birds
should be examined, for example geese, partridge, dove, hens,
vultures, eagles, before you commit yourself to the winds.
Marin Mersenne (1588 - 1648). French scientist who was influential in the theoretics of flight. He was a writer and an active correspondent with people such as Descartes on the theories of flight.
René Hague
Blind
NFS
René Hague
Blind
NFS
TO THE ANGEL IN THE STONE
by Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin
TRAMPLED IN
THE CAUSEWAY
THE STONE THE BUILDERS
PASSED OVER
CRIES OUT: BONE OF THE
RANKED HEIGHTS
FROM DARKNESS
WHERE MOSS AND SPIDERS
NEVER VENTURE
YOU KNOW WHAT WAYS
I PLUMBED
PAST WHAT HARD THRESHOLD
YOU SEE OURAFFLICTION
YOU KNOW
HOW WE WERE MADE
HOW WE DECAY
AT HAND
WHEN THE BACKBONE CRASHED IN THE SEA TIDE
YOU HAVE HEARD
HOW THE WAVES ARE BREAKING OUR BONES
YOU LOOK DOWN WHERE THE HIGH PEAKS
ARE RANGING
YOU SEE THEM
FLICKERING LIKE FLAMES
THEY ARE LIKE A MIDGE
DANCING AT EVENING
GIVE ME A REST FOR A DAY
LET ME MOURN
LET ME LIE ON THE STONE BENCH
ABOVE THE TREE-LINE
AND DRINK WATER
FOR ONE
WHOLE
DAY
Alec Peever
To the Angel in the Stone (Poem by Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin), 1999
York Stone
195.5 x 109 x 6.5 cm
6ft 4 3/4x 3ft 7 x 2 1/2 in.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in 1942. She received a B.A. in English and History and a master’s in English from University College Cork. In 1966 she joined the School of English at Trinity College as an emeritus professor. She published her first collection of poems in 1981.
Rupert Spira
Monumental 'Cylinder Vase' with Poem
Stoneware, pale grey celadon glaze over embossed text
77 x 16.7 x 16.7 cm
30 ⅜ x 6 ½ x 6 ½ in.
Luke Dickinson
Smoking, Melting, Boiling, Burning
Iranian red travertine with Kilkenny base
76 x 18 x 18 cm
2ft 5⅞ x 7⅛ x 7⅛ in.
Gary Breeze
Can It Be The Spring
NFS
Jonathan Michael Ray
Dark Lith, 2023
Cornish Slate, enamel and steel
223 x 98 cm
7ft 3 ¾ x 3ft 2 ⅝ in.
