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Many of the ideas for Geoffrey Clarke’s sculpture were first expressed as prints, and most of the works in this exhibition were made during a series of intense creative periods in 1950. At about this time he was engaged by the architect Basil Spence to work on the new Cathedral for Coventry and he was involved in the project for the next ten years. He contributed more pieces to the Cathedral than any other artist: stained glass for three of the Nave windows, the High Altar Cross and Candlesticks, the Cross and Candlesticks for the Undercroft, the Crown of Thorns and the Flying Cross.
God, Nature and Mankind were central to Geoffrey Clarke’s work throughout this period. His religious faith made him an appropriate choice for the Coventry Cathedral commissions, and his prints and sculptures are intensely personal and evocative. Although he shared the materials and forms he used in his work with other artists, his style is highly individual and his subject matter his own. He developed a personal language to convey the relationships between God and Man, Man and Nature. The prints express ideas for sculpture and overcome the lack of a third dimension in their emotional depth.
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