103147 | GREAT BRITAIN. "Meadow" cast bronze Medal.

103147  |  GREAT BRITAIN. "Meadow" cast bronze Medal. Issued 2012 (77mm x 78mm, 214.79 g, 6h). By Rosemary Terry for the British Art Medal Society, and cast by Lunts Castings in Birmingham.

 

Upright head of wild carrot flower (Queen Anne's Lace/[Daucus carota]) in full bloom; church steeple and meadow in background // The same head, now inverted and gone to seed, with the meadow in background now under the cover of winter. Edge: Plain.

 

The Medal 62 (Spring 2013), p. 72. As Made. Alluring brown surfaces. From an output of just 32 pieces.

 

Ex David Nicholas Silich Collection, Part II.

 

The workup in the Spring 2013 issue of The Medal offers this about the artist and her BAMS medal: "...At first glance, Meadow Medal by Rosemary Terry (b. 1953) marks a significant departure from the concern with Enlightenment science and the body displayed in the artist's recent work. As she writes: 'Last summer, part of my local urban churchyard was sown with a wild flower meadow, and this became a spectacular sight, dominated by the graceful, architectural forms of wild carrot (daucus carota). On daily dog walks I watched these beautiful umbellifers develop buds, flowers and finally seed heads - every stage fascinating and sculptural. Meadow Medal celebrates the cycle of this commonplace, overlooked plant by showing on one side the flower head in bud, encapsulating a summer churchyard, while on the reverse the seed head, inverted, scatters seed over the scene in winter.' However much it differs in ostensible subject, it could be argued that this medal shares with Terry's other small-scale works a concern with the consistency of form in nature, from big to small, in which a tree might recall the bronchi of the lungs, or vice versa. In outline, the medal may allude to a grouping of nerves, perhaps at the back of an eye. In a broader sense, the situation of the churchyard extends this similarity to touch upon the fecundity of death, as, in decay, our remains take new shape in the life they sustain. Terry is senior lecturer in sculpture at the University of Wolverhampton."

 

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