Graham Talbot Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1949 -

My name is Graham Talbot.

To begin at the beginning.

In the beginning was the idea, and the idea was good, (well if not exactly good, it was a start, a beginning).

This is the on-going story of my attempts to assemble a group exhibition as part of my work on an MA course in art practice at the university of Glamorgan. The venue is Tactile Bosch in Cardiff.

Hub, welded steel with branches.

Using a bundle of branches left by a former student, explored the idea of an expanding form, an ambiguous definition of space.

But lets go back a bit.

To begin at the beginning.

My own beginning was in 1949 in Ebbw Vale, Gwent.

When I was 3yrs old my parents moved to a, then, small village near Abergavenny.

I still live in the same house.

After school[of undistinguished mediocrity] I worked for 10 yrs in a steel works, first as an apprentice then as a CRAFTSMAN, journey man.

‘Dreaming head’, carved wood.

While working at the steel-works I started to make things…….objects…….I think before I defined them as…….sculpture………..as art. This making process satisfied a need……slaked a thirst………and was a compulsive…..instinctive activity. I began to consider studying art.

I’d seen a Caro sculpture in a traveling exhibition at Hereford Museum and absolutely loathed it, yet the image stayed in my mind, after the other work, that I’d admired was forgotten.

‘Landscape figure’, mixed media.

‘Who am I today?’, steel & ceramic, 1975.

‘The chair of tribal studies’, mixed media.

Redundancy gave me the opportunity to study art [foundation] at Newport Art College in 1975, [I imagined I'd leave the works one day, but the works would always be there, right on the former but wrong on the latter]. Worked almost exclusively on painting and greatly admired the work of two lectures Ernest Zobole and John Sellway.