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Geoff Rankin
Artist Statement
For years I have been working with big lumps of kiln glass or obsidian (volcanic glass) using diamond saws and grinders then polishing with silicon carbide. I aim to capture pure form using simple lines. My sculpture often has three pieces that related to each other. Several have no formal base and can be viewed different ways adding interest.
Website
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021 164 3555
Address
PO Box 23235, Manukau
Attraction
Price
$1,600.00
Height
195 (mm)
Width
210 (mm)
Depth
110 (mm)
Medium
Glass from Auckland Kiln and Whangarei kiln, cold worked using diamond and silicon carbide tools to shape.
Artwork Artist Statement
These two forms in glass come from different kilns but they have a strong relationship to each other, My preference is for them to be viewed facing each other but they can be viewer other ways giving a different look.
Siblings
Price
$1,750.00
Height
280 (mm)
Width
220 (mm)
Depth
230 (mm)
Medium
Whangarei kiln glass cold worked using diamond and silicon carbide tools.
Artwork Artist Statement
Three upstanding forms have a tight relationship to each other. They have all been cut from one block and fixed to a sheet of plate glass. Even when worked cold glass have a lovely liquid quality.
Thinker in Silhouette
Price
$1,950.00
Height
312 (mm)
Width
222 (mm)
Depth
85 (mm)
Medium
Mexican rainbow obsidian on a base of Kaeo obsidian (natural New Zealand volcanic glass).
Artwork Artist Statement
This work depicts the head of a thinker in profile in it’s simplest form carved from Mexican rainbow obsidian (a natural volcanic glass). The colours appear when light hits the black polished surface at the right angle like oil in a puddle. Mounted on Kaeo obsidian from Northland obsidian has existed for thousands of years being the first glass used and traded by humans.
Slipstream
Price
$1,700.00
Height
125 (mm)
Width
290 (mm)
Depth
65 (mm)
Medium
Whangarei kiln glass, carved with diamond tools then hand polished with silicon carbide.
Artwork Artist Statement
Worked from a large lump of Whangarei glass this form emerged. Like a lot of my work there is no formal base. The question is why should Sculpture only look good from three hundred and sixty degrees? Having no base the work can be viewed several different ways changing it’s look.
Whale Tail
Price
$1,550.00
Height
145 (mm)
Width
230 (mm)
Depth
90 (mm)
Medium
Glass from Auckland kiln then carved using diamond tools and polished with silicon carbide.
Artwork Artist Statement
Although this is a very dark glass it has a lovely iridescent quality and translucent edges when shown with good back lighting. Again I was looking for pure form. After it was finished and sitting on my bench I could see the likeness to a whale tail. Hence the name. In my opinion names are always an afterthought.
