Gordon Baldwin

“Gordon’s sculpture has really been a prolonged series of travel notes in the deepest sense, following one trajectory and then another, finding a new path or returning to an old one. These vessels ‘fragments of place and mind’ remain questioning, interrogative, the shapes strangely nebulous. The pieces shown here comprise a small retrospective from the last decade, signifying just a few of his recent ideas, often worked through in series of connected forms. They are objects which evoke the particular lie of the land in his mind‘s eye; from the muted, understated pillows of clay with dramatic cross-shaped openings to the taller monolith forms with geometric or freer paths of marking, from the amorphous pitch-black ‘Dark’ and ‘Rocking’ vessels to the floating cloud-like balance of his ‘Delphic’ series.”

Excerpt from Preoccupations, an essay by David Whiting 2009.
Photography courtesey Barratt Marsden Gallery.
Gordon Baldwin is represented by the Marsden Woo Gallery in London.