PROJECT NAME: Porphyry
DATE: 2004

OUTLINE:

Design of exhibition graphics for Stephen Cox's Porphyry exhibition in London.

Design of an invitation card for the exclusive private view evening of the exhibition.

BACKGROUND

Sculptor Stephen Cox was born in Bristol in 1946. He studied at the Central School of Art and Design, London (1966-68). Cox's work is based in other cultures. Rooted in classicism, his early sculptures related to architecture and archaic fragments, and were realised in stone from Italian quarries. The Mediterranean as the cradle of civilisation of the Western world provided the context and the substance for his work. In 1986 Cox represented Britain at the Sixth Indian Triennale in New Delhi. He went to Mahabalipuram, a centre for traditional Hindu carving, to make sculpture for the exhibition, and since that time has maintained a studio there. The carvings he made in granite from the ancient quarries of nearby Kanchipuram were to have a great bearing on his work over the next decade. Some were more overtly 'Indian' than others, and might be viewed as being linked to the humanism of both the Eastern and Western worlds.

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