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Richard Stone is an established British artist, whose practice explores stillness, movement and light. In recent media he reflects on men making sculpture now, public art, history and sensuality. He also talks about making art in the time of digital dependence and the still potent power of art as a catalyst for transcendence in facing the urgent issues that increasingly face us.
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selected coverage
Focus: Eye of the Collector (The Financial Times, 2023)
Stunning Sculptures by Richard Stone (Our Culture, 2021).
Exhibition Review A Splendour Amongst Shadows (Trebuchet Magazine, 2020).
Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this September, Tabish Khan (Fad Magazine, 2020).
Artist Profile (The Asian Curator, 2019)
Godfrey Worsdale, Henry Moore Foundation Director Talks Yorkshire Sculpture International (Artlyst, 2019)
Nature Transformed (Baku Magazine, 2018)
Ingram Collection Director/Curator Jo Baring Talks Sculpture With Artist Richard Stone (Artlyst, 2018)
British Artist Richard Stone to Exhibit Two Bronze Works at the Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition (AfterNyne, 2018)
Statelessness Collapse and Transformation in Richard Stone's work (ArtDependance, 2018)
on the fall of the heroic masculine
Through a mix of found objects and draped forms, Stone invites a reflection on the relevance of the historic heroic masculine. But rather than replacing a dated idea with a new, singular representation, he invites a reflection of what might take its place.
Richard spoke further about public sculpture in a thought piece for Artlyst Magazine A Sculpture Falls, The Trouble with Problematic Public Sculpture (June 2020).
“The masculine heroic idea feels very dated… this is reflected in the works of Richard stone where horses have been covered“.
Tabish Khan Top Five Exhibitions to see in London this September (September 2020, Fad Magazine).
on the revision of nationhood
Clearly we are at a time of great change, and it’s unclear how we will emerge. Constructs once held as solid are in rupture, but within moments such as these, there are possibilities. So too in Stone’s work, solidity collapses, yet re-emerges with new propositions.
“Stone is not selling us transcendent escapism, he is selling us participant freedom through investigation. He wants us to ask, ‘What collective world do we want?’ The blank flag is both ready to be painted anew and also a vacuum of national meaning.”
Exhibition review of 'a splendour among shadows’ at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge (September 2020, Trebuchet)
Anna Wallace-Thompson spoke to Richard about how bronze, paint and marble are the perfect media through which to explore the changeability of history and mankind, as well as the enduring power of nature. Nature Transformed: The Work of Artist Richard Stone. (Baku Magazine, December 2018).
on screens and sensuality
We are being asked to increasingly experience the world through screens. In these wall pieces, Stone can be seen to play a visual trick with the framing of screen, yet he evokes a fabric like sensuality that appears to move within and beyond.
Richard discussed ideas like this and his resistance to flatness in contemporary sculpture, through to the poetics of failure, some influences and what’s next with the Asian Curator. Artist Profile Richard Stone (The Asian Curator, April 2020).