Richard Deacon

A retrospective of Richard Deacon's "fabrications" (he calls himself a fabricator rather than a sculptor) opens in the Tate Britain tomorrow, 5th February.

Here's a review in yesterday's Guardian.

I really like his stuff!  As Adrian Searle writes in the Guardian:

Richard Deacon's sculptures turn and twist and coil and flow. Sometimes they are solid ceramic geometries, whose weight and density can almost be felt with the eye. Others you can see right through, as if they were lines drawn in space, or the carcass of an animal, or a boat stripped to the ribs. They can be like physical X-rays. Some are like body parts or shells. Others are more like a place, somewhere you could crawl into and hide.

I'll try and visit the retrospective, which goes on until 27th April. 

Deacon has rather a pretentious website.  It's very "arty" and it took me a little while to work out how to navigate it.  For example, clicking on "sculpture" doesn't get you very far.  You have to click on one of the subdivisions such as "various" when a list of years and corresponding titles of sculptures is displayed.  Clicking on the title gets to a photo (at last!).

There's quite good one-click summary of Deacon's achievements on  Artfacts.net and a decent snapshot on the Tate website.

More about Deacon after I've been to Tate Britain.