Keith Ackerman | Resisting The Rising Sea | July 2024

Preview Thursday 18th July 2024 | 5:30-8:30pm

  • Friday 19th July | 10am-2pm
    Saturday 20th July | 10am-2pm
    Sunday 21st July | 10am-2pm
    Monday 22nd July | 10am-2pm
    Tuesday 23rd July | 10am-2pm
    Wednesday 24th July | 12-8pm

    Monday 5th August | 10am-2pm
    Wednesday 7th August | 12-8pm
    Thursday 8th August | 10am-2pm
    Friday 9th August | 10am-2pm
    Saturday 10th August | 10am-2pm
    Sunday 11th August | 10am-2pm
    Monday 12th August | 10am-2pm

    Then By Appointment until Sunday 15th September

  • Keith Ackerman came to sculpture relatively late in life after a career as a Chartered Electrical Engineer. Following sculpting courses at Bradford and York colleges, including seven years with the sculptor Dominic Hopkinson, concentrating on stone carving and bronze casting as his main artistic processes. His sculptures are abstract and often made from local stone.

    "Stone is the direct link to the heart of the matter - a molecular link. When I tap it, I get an echo of that which we are. Then the whole universe has resonance." Isamu Noguchi

“...these works are my intrusions forgiven by nature (or stones)”
— Isamu Noguchi

At a billion years old, Torridon Sandstone is not a material often used in the production of sculpture. Being in the region of a billion years old it is extremely hard, and being sedimentary it has a habit of shearing off in layers. All of which adds up to a material that is used for many things, but rarely sculpture.

This exhibition by Keith Ackerman is an opportunity to take a closer look at this type of rock in a way that only sculpture allows us to, examining the structure through the different treatments of the surface. As the sculptor Noguchi suggests, nature cannot be improved on and we must hope that the earth forgives us our intrusions.

Floor Plan

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Sunday 18th August | 12-2pm

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