Carol Peace - Place I

Place I

Sometimes, you make a piece of work which is the piece you have always being trying to make, what your work is fundamentally about, even though you can’t quite pinpoint what that is.

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Carol Peace - I Am

I Am

‘I Am’ was made when I first moved to the mountains. The black mountains near Hay on Wye.

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Carol Peace - Family 5

5 to 4

The inconceivable but inevitable has happened. The family, my family, my unit, my security, my strength has decreased.

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Carol Peace - Couple

For Ed

I did not know Ed but I made a sculpture of him. When I looked through the lens to photograph the sculpture, I saw him for the first time, and I saw that he was not with us anymore.

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Family 3

Family

The new steel circle pieces are about support, each circle comes from the other but takes its own journey. 

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Carol Peace - Love

Love

Firstly, like the majority of my work, it symbolises a love and respect of nature.

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Carol Peace - May

Lady May

The writing below I wrote back in May when I was feeling a bit more mental than I am now but it still stands.

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Carol Peace - Clover

Clover

I come from fields of clover from the north. From the west of an island of which we share salt water.

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Carol Peace - Heartbeat

Heart Beat

I have never known the touch of my own child but I have heard a heartbeat. I will not hold the fragile yet feisty promise of youth.

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Carol Peace - Dress drawing

Pots, Vessels and Dresses

I have for some time wanted to make a pot. I like vessels and am always attracted to still life drawing and paintings that contain volumes.

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Carol Peace - Valentine

Valentine

My work has to come from me, honestly and directly. There is no room to try and be clever or original, to try and fit in with a world that does not belong to me.

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Carol Peace - Recovering Robin

Recovering Robin

That night I had a dream that I had a dead robin in my hand and I put a little blanket on it to try and keep it warm.

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