By: PENNIE, Michael (1936-2019)

Acq. Number: 381

Dimensions: 154.9 x 116.8 cm

Artwork_Medium: Polyester resin and fibreglass sculpture

Purchased: 1970

Buyer: TINKER, David

Location: Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries

Town: Aberystwyth

Content: Gifted to the Welsh Arts Council. Transferred from the Arts Council of Wales toAberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries In the online article MICHEAL PENNIE SCULPTURE: MAKING AND TEACHING: OR HOW I BECAME SUCH A PECULIAR PERSONPennie discusses this work. 'Bishop was also originally modelled in clay. It began as another ship-like image, predictably a sculpture of my own size, and at first it lay along the studio floor,floating. NextI switched from clay to a one-inch thick polystyrene sheet and built a more precise version, in a material easy to cut and paste or pin together. Next came a plaster mould and then a cast a laminate of polyester resin and fibreglass. Finally, I painted it with the ubiquitous Blackboard Black. But instead of showing it as a horizontal piece, the Flowers space was too small to accommodate Bishop lying down among the other sculptures, it stood vertical, like a mitre, hence the title. Another sculpture with straight lines I used to say architectonic well organised and modular. Bishop is somewhere in the University of Wales Collection at Aberystwyth.'

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