LAURENCE BRODERICK
A.R.S.B.S., F.R.S.A.
Playful Otter Maquette IX
Bronze. Edition 23/50.
H.12cm, L.22cm IMAGE
Ornsay Otter Maquette
Bronze. Edition 29/50.
L.21cm IMAGE
Sandaig Otter Maquette
Bronze. Edition 26/100.
H.17cm 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.
