102985 | GREAT BRITAIN. "Pavement Series No. 1" cast bronze Medal.

102985  |  GREAT BRITAIN. "Pavement Series No. 1" cast bronze Medal. Issued 1995 (72mm x 71mm, 248.90 g, 12h). By Robin Shelton for the British Art Medal Society, and cast by Lunts Castings in Birmingham.

 

Representations of a drain cover and pavement. Edge: Shelton '94.

 

The Medal 26 (Spring 1995), p. 154; Attwood 107. As Made. Brown-bronze surfaces. From an output of just 29 pieces.

 

The workup in the Spring 1995 issue of The Medal offers this about the artist and his BAMS medal: "Robin Shelton is currently studying silversmithing and jewellery at Loughborough College of Art and Design. His John Cage medal (see The Medal, no. 25 [1994], p. 143) won him the 1994 Royal Society of British Sculptors student travel bursary, with which he travelled to the Netherlands, France and Italy; it also gave him a week's placement at the Royal Mint in October. His BAMS medal is part of a body of recent work based on imagery derived from pavements, roads and the urban environment. Some examples of this work are also illustrated here. Through these pieces the artist meets the challenge of how to create aesthetically pleasing objects from seemingly mundane, some might say ugly, source material. He writes, 'The medal's imagery is derived from pavements, drain covers, and yellow lines. It does not, hopefully, speak singularly about these things, but is intended as a metaphor for all the objects, sensations and events not falling within commonly accepted parameters of "Art," that many of us pass every day. The medal challenges normal conceptions of "front" and "back," leaving these two definitions ambiguous, and instead recognises the interdependence of the two.'"

 

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