Bronze casting dominated Chadwick's working process. These works possess a supernatural vibrancy, strikingly expressed with thin spiny rods, nodes of melted metal and rib meshes of animalistic and unworldly anatomies. Beasts, birds and humanoids, some coupled, all charged with a vital and ethereal energy.
Chadwick's devoted practice as a 'conduit', meant he worked without a preconceived idea of how each sculpture would evolve. By welding together metal rods, he created working models 'drawing' multifaceted structures and filling the voids and planes with stolit, a composite of plaster and iron filings. It created a highly textural surface surface akin to organic matter.
It was essential that every cast was faithful to the working model in attitude, texture and scale. The bronze was then painted black or patinated to replicate the tones of Stolit. Chadwick felt colour was a distraction and would only introduce a polished surface to a sculpture to emphasise shape or effect a contrast.
Each limited edition cast is taken directly from its working model and made to Chadwick's specifications at his foundry, Pangolin Editions who have worked closely with him since 1982.
Chadwick's devoted practice as a 'conduit', meant he worked without a preconceived idea of how each sculpture would evolve. By welding together metal rods, he created working models 'drawing' multifaceted structures and filling the voids and planes with stolit, a composite of plaster and iron filings. It created a highly textural surface surface akin to organic matter.
It was essential that every cast was faithful to the working model in attitude, texture and scale. The bronze was then painted black or patinated to replicate the tones of Stolit. Chadwick felt colour was a distraction and would only introduce a polished surface to a sculpture to emphasise shape or effect a contrast.
Each limited edition cast is taken directly from its working model and made to Chadwick's specifications at his foundry, Pangolin Editions who have worked closely with him since 1982.
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Two Dancing Figures IlI, 1954
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Two Figures, 1954
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The Stranger, 1954
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Sun, 1955 1956 1958
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Beast, 1955
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Dance III, 1955
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Winged Figures, 1955
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Teddy Boy and Girl (Second Version), 1955
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Dancing Figures (Two Dancing Figures), 1956
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Beast VII, 1956
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Beast IX, 1956
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Maquette for Dancing Figure, 1956
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Third Maquette for Teddy Boy and Girl II, 1956
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Untitled (Two Figures), 1956
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The Orator, 1956
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Standing Figure, 1956
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Stranger II, 1956
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Maquette IV Moon of Alabama, 1957
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Maquette III Moon of Alabama, 1957
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Skyscraper, 1957
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Encounter VII, 1957
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Maquette Winged Female Figure, 1957
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Maquette II for R34 Memorial, 1958
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Conjunction IV, 1958
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Teddybear I, 1958
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Stranger III, 1959
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Aga Cant - Old Watcher, 1959
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Beast XVI, 1959
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Beast XVIII, 1959
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Beast XXI, 1959
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Beast XXII, 1959
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Conjunction VIII, 1959
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Maquette for R34 (Maquette for Stranger III), 1959
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Black Beast, 1960
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Conjunction IX , 1960
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Maquette for Sitting Beast, 1961
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Maquette for The Trigons (3), 1961
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Monopod, 1965
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Two Watchers V Second Version, 1967
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Maquette I Two Watchers V, 1967