Trained in blacksmithing at Hereford College of Technology, Stanger has been shaping metal on the anvil for over ten years and welding seventeen years. Within all of his sculpture there is a creative skill giving consistency and quality.
With so many items mass-produced and surrounded in our modern age with lifeless forms, he deems it necessary to create his work from natural living organisms. He has a particular interest in fungi. Mushrooms and toadstools seem to appear and disappear with a ‘now you see me, now you don’t’ attitude, capturing our imagination and reflecting the concept of change.
Such organisms often appear on decaying matter, which seems to echo an eternal process of destruction leading to creation. From within the unity of these two opposites a third process can be perceived which encapsulates an ever-evolving pattern based on transformation and change. Stanger construes this pattern to be a creative force and it is from this pattern that he strives to draw inspiration, if nothing else he hopes that whatever he makes will help to make a more beautiful world.
The fire of divine inspiration under the control of a human hand results in an artistically created item which, it is hoped, reflects the divine harmony.
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Three Toadstoolsstainless steel and copper 9" x 9" £295 |
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Lobsterstainless steel 20" x 12" £395 sold |
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Fairy Ringstainless steel 6' diameter £2800 |
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Gekkostainless Steel 4" x 17" £145 |
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