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LAURENCE BRODERICK A.R.S.B.S., F.R.S.A.

 

Otter Cub Maquette I.

Bronze. Edition 9/50                                                                                                                                       IMAGE

 

 

Playful Otter Maquette IX

Bronze. Edition 23/50                                                                                                                                     IMAGE

 

 

 

 

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Laurence Broderick is predominantly a stone carver, working with many types of stone including Ledmore, Portsoy and Purbeck Marbles, Alabaster, Polyphant Soapstone, Hopton Wood and Ancaster Limestone.  He also models in clay, plasticine, plaster and wax for casting into bronze. One of Laurence's recent commissions was a twice life-sized sculpture of a bull, the centrepiece for the new Bullring in Birmingham.  It opened on 4th September 2003 to a crowd of 279,000 people! In his figurative and abstract bronze and stone sculpture, Laurence Broderick draws inspiration from the female nude and wildlife, in particular the otter and other endangered species.  When learning of the plight of turtles, rhinos and elephants due to man's abuse, it had a profound and emotional effect on expressing his art. He is joint President of the International Otter Survival Fund, a global charity for the conservation of the otter, based on the Isle of Skye. Childhood influence from pebbles and bones with their subtle shapes and curves is at once apparent in the artist's stonecarving.  His skill lends his work vitality, tactility and movement, emphasised by simplified forms, subtle curves, flowing lines and smooth surfaces, often contrasted by small areas of rough texture. The scale of work ranges from small bronze maquettes of a few centimetres up to very large outdoor sculpture of monumental proportions.  Laurence also specialises in commissioned portrait heads in bronze of adults and children. Born in Bristol in 1935 Laurence studied sculpture under Geoffrey Deeley at the Regent Street Polytechnic, and under Sidney Harpley and Keith Godwin at the Hammersmith School of Art, London.  He was awarded Associate Membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. As well as regular exhibitions on Skye, Laurence has shown his work in successful one-man shows throughout the country and abroad as well as groups shows with the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Contemporary Portrait Society, the Society of Wildlife Artists and the Royal West of England Academy. 

                                                                                                           

Commissions and Collections include: Madonna and Child, All Saints, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset; St. George, The Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, Hertfordshire; Crucifix, The Priory, Christchurch, Dorset; Madonna of the Magnificat, The Priory, Dunstable, Bedfordshire; St. Mark and the Lion, St. Mark's Mansfield, Derbyshire; Large Playful Otter and Goddess of Water, Kinloch Lodge Hotel, Kinloch, Isle of Skye; Two sculptures of Mother and Child, also The Otter in the Cherrybank Gardens, Perth, Scotland;  Teko – The Swimming Otter, the Otter Trust, Earsham, Suffolk; Leaping Salmon, Chester Business Park, Chester, Cheshire;

Bust of Philippe Chatrier (Past President International Tennis Federation), London, also Roland Garros, Paris;

Teko – The Swimming Otter, Clan Donald Centre, Armadale Castle, Isle of Skye;

Turtle, Prudential, London;

Bust of Lady Aberdeen, Haddo Arts Trust, Aberdeenshire;

A Family of Otters, Powergen, Coventry;

Little Playful Otter I, Leicester Hospice;

Mother and Child II, Leicester Royal Infirmary – Maternity Unit, Leicester;

Goddess Athena and Owl, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Oslo, Norway (Grandeur of the Seas);

Indian Elephant Calf, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Oslo (Enchantment of the Seas), also Turtle and Tortoise and two "Mayan Figures" (Vision of the Seas, RCCL);

Bust of Brian Tobin (Past President International Tennis Federation), ITF, London and Australia;

The Bull (Birmingham Bullring);

World Champion Trophies (International Tennis Federation);

Salmon and Otter, Turtle and Otters (The Jeffery Archer Collection);

Teko the Otter (Brightwater Centre (Born Free Foundation), Kyleakin, Isle of Skye.

 

 

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