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tom allan

This artist accepts commissions

Mediums Used

Carrara Marble, Slate, travertine, Resin bronze, onyx, Red Persian travertine, other marbles, Serpentine, Bronze,

Tom Allan has been making sculpture since 1977, and sculpting full time since 2000, after a career in English teaching. He has worked in various media, but mainly use stone and marble. He attended classes in sculpture and life drawing at Glasgow School of Art, and has worked with and learned from stone-masons in Scotland and marble-carvers in Carrara, Italy. Since 2000 he has worked for several weeks each year at a studio in Carrara.

The majority of his sculptures are on a domestic scale, to be lived with in the home or outdoors in the garden. He has also done some large-scale commissions, private and public.

For me stone sculpture is an expressive art form. I try to express emotion through the stone I am working with, like a painter using colour and form. There is an excitement in that, and the challenge is to bring modern techniques and idioms to this ancient art.

Sculptures by tom allan

Archetype (Modern Abstract Spiritual sculpture)

£1,417

Tiny Dancer (Flowing Shiny Dancing Torso statue)

£350

Moonrise in the Desert (Carved Stone Moonscape sculpture)

£1,250

Hero (Polished marble Torso sculpture)

£1,500

Armadillo Flower (Polished White Carved Flower)

£1,543

Ship of Fools (Whimsical Nautical Abstract Carving)

£1,500

Pomegranate (Outsize Carved Red marble sculpture)

£3,500

Faun: Nijinsky (Mythical Bronze Male sculpture)

£4,167

Applemac Classic (Carved Stone Icon of our Age sculpture)

£5,000

Credentials

Biography

I have been making sculpture since 1977, and sculpting full time since 2001. I have worked in various media, but mainly use stone and marble.

I attended classes in sculpture and life drawing at Glasgow School of Art, and have worked with and learned from stone-masons in Scotland and marble-carvers in Carrara, Italy. I have explored various places connected with the development of sculpture, such as Naxos, Volterra, and Florence. Since 2000 I have worked for several weeks each year at a studio in Carrara.

Influences

Cycladic sculpture
Michaelangelo
Rodin
Brancusi
Modigliani
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Henry Moore
Barbara Hepworth
Jacob Epstein
Tom Whalen
George Innes

Reviews

Article in "Art News Scotland", Autumn 2007.

Various reviews/reports in the Glasgow "Herald" and the "Scotsman" newspapers.

Public Works

2008 Memorial to Wm Fife and Sons, Yacht Builders, Fairlie
Holocaust Memorial, Bajna Bashta, Serbia
Stone work for Penilee Public Art project
2007 Stone work for Castlemilk Environment Trust Project
2006 Pope John Paul II (Carrara marble) life size, for St Francis Xavier`s Church, Lanarkshire.
2005 St Peregrine (Carrara marble) life size, for Carfin Pilgrimage Centre, Lanarkshire.
"Caring" (Cornish serpentine) for Pollokshaws Medical Centre, Glasgow
2004 "Solar Disc" Macedonian marble, for Tara sculpture colony, Serbia.

Teaching Experience
Teaching stone sculpture is an important activity for me, and I have been running classes at Glasgow Sculpture Studios since 2005, with students ranging from absolute beginners, through experienced amateurs from all ages and all occupations, to Art School students, graduates, and art teachers.
Public Acquisitions
Tom Allan`s sculptures and paintings are in private collections in Britain, the Continent and the Americas, and in public collections in Scotland and Mexico. 2010 Paisley Art Gallery and Museum 2010 University of Guadalajara, Mexico
Symposiums
in 2006 Tom Allan set up and organised the first regular International Stone Sculpture Symposium in Scotland. Twelve sculptors, from 8 different countries, came to participate in the event. This was repeated in 2007, at Kelburn Castle near Largs.he helped to organise the first sculpture symposium in a Scottish town at Kirkcudbright, in August 2010. He has also participated in the following symposia: 2010 Puerta Vallarta, Mexico Big Art for Kirkcudbright, Scotland 2009 "Ad Astra" wood symposium, Kormend, Hungary 2008 "Tara" International artistic colony, Bajna Bashta, Serbia 2007 "Clach 2" International Sculpture Symposium, Kelburne Castle and Country Park, Fairlie, Scotland 2007 "Circle of Life" International Sculpture Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2006 "Clach" Scottish International Sculpture Symposium, Plane Castle, near Stirling, Scotland 2004 "Tara" International artistic colony, Serbia

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Angular Jagged Abstract Modern Contemporary sculpture statuary Focal Point Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture statue Geometric Sculpture Meditation sculpture/statues/statuettes/figurines Round Disk, Dish, Flat Circular Ring Shaped Sculptures / Statues statuette statuary Spiritual sculpture Abstract Dance/Dancer sculptures Bronze Little or Small sculpture Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines Gleaming Shiny Highly Polished Stainless Steel and Precious Metals sculpture Spirit of Dance Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture Torsos Chests Females / Women / Girls / Damsels Sculptures Statues statuary Abstract Contemporary Modern Outdoor Outside Garden / Yard Sculptures Statues statuary Assemblages Sculptures, Made from a Variety of Pieces or Bits collected together Interior Indoors Inside Sculpture Landscape Mountains Countryside sculptures statues statuettes Sun Moon Stars Solar System Planets Comets Celestial Bodies sculpture statues After the Antique Sculptures carvings Statues Champions sculptures statues statuettes figurines Classical Style Sculptures and statues Nudes/ Male Sculpture Torsos Sculptures or Chests Abstract Plants Fruits Trees Leaves Flowers statues sculptures Carved Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture statue carving Carved Stone, Marble, Alabaster, Soap Stone Granite Lime stone Sculpture Organic/Abstract Sculpture Fantasy sculpture or Statue Humorous Witty Amusing Lighthearted Fun Jolly Whimsical Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines Transport including Road/Rail/Air / Aircraft/Sea/ Maritime Fruit Sculpture Garden Or Yard / Outside and Outdoor Sculptures Love / Affection/Adoration/Passion Sculpture Objects of desire sculptures Outsize, Very Big, Extra Large and Massive Sculptures Dance Sculptures and Ballet sculptures Human Form: Abstract Sculptures Male Men Youths Masculine statues sculptures statuettes figurines Tabletop Desktop Small Indoor Statuettes Figurines Sculptures Every day Objects ( sculptures of inorganic things) Installation Sculpture Pop Art Sculpture Realistic Representational Sculpture

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marble pomegranate sculpture marble pomegranate statue marble sculpture of fruit marble statue of fruit pomegranate sculpture pomegranate statue sculpture of fruit statue of fruit statuette of fruit Bronze statues of Nude Dancer Little Nude Man statuette Mythical Nude Man sculptures Mythical Nude Man statue Mythological Bronze sculptures Nude Male Dancer sculptures Resting Dancer sculptures sculptures of Nude Men Small Naked Man Dancer sculpture computer sculpture computer statue computer statuette Contemporary sculpture of computer Contemporary stone computer sculpture marble computer sculpture modern sculpture of computer