Carol Peace

I couldn’t work without drawing, it’s all about trying to see, drawing enables that. But mostly I make figurative sculpture from clay, which like charcoal is quick to make marks with, once finished it is cast into bronze or bronze resin, those fluid marks of the making are then fixed forever.

The work is about everyday life, in its minutia, the courage, the strength and the vulnerability of being human. I am ridiculously romantic so often the work is about those quiet moments, the flash of a look, a small gesture, the pressure of a hand in yours, of skin resting on skin; the extra ordinariness and magnitude of the simplicity of the touch of a partner, the closeness of love, it’s both basic and huge.

I cant find a better way to describe my work than how the poet John Terry described it

“They are first of all, real people. They yearn but they also give. They rise, they don’t fall. They strive; are eternal optimists. They look perhaps slightly disorientated, but there is no pleasure in falling, or in giving up, so they keep on. ‘For us there is only the trying’ “
Poet, John Terry