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Anglo Sax En France by Tony Alcock | Sculpture | Artlimes
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Anglo Sax En France

Anglo Sax En France, 2000

Tony Alcock

Original Sculpture169.5 x 84 x 26 cm

Various paint mediums and varnishes on wood

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About Tony Alcock

I was born in Nottingham (UK) in June 1947. My post school art education included a Pre-Dip at Loughborough followed by studying Fine Art / Painting at Leicester Polytechnic. After graduating and producing my 'Light Organ', I enjoyed a couple of years being recognized as an original and practicing artist in the UK. However, I chose to pursue life as a teacher, gaining a PGCE from Bristol University, where I later briefly lectured in Art education.

Circumstances changed and I found myself working as a musician, became a music shop owner and eventually worked in a successful graphics based company, MOGO UK. From 1993, I was able to reactivate my artistic ambitions, identifying myself as AMA, I've always liked the symmetry of my initials. Most all the work on this Artlimes website will have been produced after 1993.

Sculpture

About this Sculpture

This work takes the form of a hinged diptych containing some crude elements of the English language and is intended to be displayed opened up as a book; maybe a child's book containing simple, basic examples of language. However, this 'book' contains eight four-letter words of early Anglo Saxon origin, all similar in form in that they each contain one vowel and three consonants They words are in the form of anagrams so as to necessarily obscure their identity. However crude the sentiment, each letter has been lovingly hand cut and formed from 10 mm thick timber.

The vowels, depicted in bright, air caressing candy colours, so finely pronounced in French, contrast imperiously with the sombre, subsumed, often repeated, consonants so often employed for their fricative and explosive values in the English language.

This work came about as I was living in both France and England and travelling frequently between the two countries. It aims to express the contrasting qualities between the spoken English and French languages.
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