• Anna Gillespie – Storm Bronze / 2013

    Anna Gillespie - Storm Bronze / 2013

  • Anna Gillespie – What Now – Bronze Sculptures

    Anna Gillespie - What Now - Bronze Sculptures

  • Anna Gillespie – To the Limit II / Sculptures Bronze

    Anna Gillespie - To the Limit II / Sculptures Bronze

  • Anna Gillespie – Sculptures

    Anna Gillespie - Sculptures

  • Anna Gillespie – Icarus – Bronze 2007

    Anna Gillespie - Icarus - Bronze 2007

  • Anna Gillespie – Sculptures atelier

    Anna Gillespie - Sculptures atelier

  • Anna Gillespie – Sculptures

    Anna Gillespie - Sculptures

  • Anna Gillespie – Let Heaven Go – Sculptures Bronze

    Anna Gillespie - Let Heaven Go - Sculptures Bronze

  • Anna Gillespie – Recycled wood chips – Mixed media

    Anna Gillespie - Recycled wood chips - Mixed media

  • Anna Gillespie – Sculptures

    Anna Gillespie - Sculptures

  • Anna Gillespie – Held – Installation at Burghley House Sculpture Garden

    Anna Gillespie - Held - Installation at Burghley House Sculpture Garden

  • Anna Gillespie – EUPHORIA – Bronze 2013

    Anna Gillespie - EUPHORIA - Bronze 2013

  • Anna Gillespie – Sculptures atelier

    Anna Gillespie - Sculptures atelier

  • Anna Gillespie – Sculptures

    Anna Gillespie - Sculptures

Mixed media Sculptures of Anna Gillespie

Mixed media Sculptures of Anna Gillespie (England) – Bristol based artist producing drawings and representational figurative sculpture using contemporary disposable materials and bronze.

Anna Gillespie - Sculptures

Anna Gillespie – Sculptures

The sculpture shows the time of gathering but also a gathering up of transience, as if by embracing time you might stop its perpetual motion. And in bronze it is caught forever.
In such work the distinction between the human and the natural world is blurred, reminding me of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses,’ in which people are transformed into trees, birds, and flowers. In all the tales the transformation is an act of mercy – so the self-obsessed, lovelorn youth Narcissus becomes a flower instead of suffering death, and the devoted old couple Baucis and Philemon are changed into trees at the same time. There is real compassion in Gillespie’s work too, and she would understand that process of becoming, for in those sculptures which do not make use of the twigs and seeds which became a characteristic so beloved of her admirers, there is still a struggle to break free of what was and become something else. So a white figure is imprisoned within a stone wall, and people wrapped in duct or masking tape are infused with extraordinary energy and given the gift of flight.
This is the work of an artist at the height of her powers, who is involved in an endless process of change herself – a serious, passionate quest for synthesis.
Bel Mooney

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