Gordon Senior
Gordon Senior is a sculptor. He was born in Wakefield in 1942 and studied at Leeds College of Art and Goldsmiths College. From 2002 to 2017 he was chair and professor of sculpture at California State University Stanislaus, in the Central Valley of California, and in 2017 he returned to his studio in Norfolk. He is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. He works in bronze, cement, wood and mixed media, and in terrazzo, mixing coloured sands and chippings into cement and then sanding, polishing and honing each piece to its final state. Alongside the sculpture he makes works on paper, also in series.
Artist Statement
The Sculptures embrace the way Senior researches the world of different plants and creatures that live upon the land. The sculptures are often made of different spherical forms created by using a range of materials and processes and displayed so they may be walked around and surfaces that seem to encourage people to embrace them. Some rounded forms are cut away to reveal what is inside of them, cast elements, often in bronze depicting ploughed land, arable plants and animals associated with rotational farm systems. Other forms seem to communicate movement and flight by their shapes with inserts reaching out offering depiction of monthly sky charts experienced during recent periods of the pandemic.
Pieces may be seen individually or as part of a linked group, a family or a series, whereby an exhibited installation might comprise of several different but inter-related works grouped together in conversation.