{"id":924,"date":"2010-06-10T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2016-01-24T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:44:55","slug":"dawn-rowland-frbs-1-new-york-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Rowland, <em>FRBS<\/em>, 1 New York St, Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my other half told me he\u2019d spotted a Modernist sculpture exhibition I didn\u2019t know about in the city, I thought he was just trying to impress me.  Quite where he\u2019d glimpsed it was another matter, but then the foyer of one of Bruntwood\u2019s city centre office blocks isn\u2019t an obvious location.<\/p>\n<p>Although Dawn Rowland is a contemporary sculptor, hailing from San Francisco but operating out of Manchester for over 30 years, her exhibition at One New York Street does suggest the simplified, \u2018primitive\u2019-inspired forms of the early 20th century.  \u2018My Sister\u2026  Myself\u2019, a pair of marble, Sphinx-like heads, passively sitting nose to nose, immediately reminds me of Eric Gill, who sculpted Prospero and Ariel for the BBC\u2019s Broadcasting House in 1932.<\/p>\n<p>A limestone work of the same name turns the matching heads in opposing directions, while a third piece shows one sibling\u2019s head apparently emerging from the other\u2019s.  Sisterhood is clearly a theme, and I can\u2019t help wondering if Rowland might be a twin herself\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dreaming is another undercurrent in the show, with three works depicting characters in repose.  The subject of a fourth, \u2018The Warrior Dreams\u2019, seems lost in dreams of a different kind, a sense of defiance, ambition and heroism coming through his up-turned eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The pieces are undated, so it isn\u2019t clear how recent these works are, but their reductionist style would sit easily with early Henry Moore or Jacob Epstein\u2019s more stream-lined work.  The bust \u2018Despair\u2019, in contrast, has more of the Picasso about it, with its slightly re-arranged features and a displaced breast at its base.      <\/p>\n<p>At one time I would have worried about contemporary output apparently so indebted to a movement almost a century old, but these days if I like new work I\u2019m inclined to just enjoy it.  And Rowland ploughs a less familiar seam with pieces like the over-sized \u2018Boxed In\u2019, in which an apparently Afro-Caribbean head appears blind-fold and encased in a granite frame.<\/p>\n<p>This and a few other works appear in multiple editions, reminding us that this is a working sculptor with commercial imperatives.  Exhibiting her work in an airy business-space, also open to the public, should surely bring it to a wider audience than a private gallery would \u2013 as long as people know where to look for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my other half told me he\u2019d spotted a Modernist sculpture exhibition I didn\u2019t know about in the city, I thought he was just trying to impress me. Quite where he\u2019d glimpsed it was another matter, but then the foyer of one of Bruntwood\u2019s city centre office blocks isn\u2019t an obvious location. 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