tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25785851087983302002012-02-16T14:56:03.451-08:00ralstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05108241000650822870noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578585108798330200.post-4361831548368194672011-02-21T06:58:00.000-08:002011-06-12T07:34:23.430-07:00<h2 class="title" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></h2><h2 class="title" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></h2><h2 class="title" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></h2><h2 style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="title" face="arial"><a href="http://www.davidralston.co.uk/"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">www.davidralston.co.uk</span></span></a></h2><h2 class="title" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></h2><h2 class="title" face="arial"><br /></h2><h2 class="title" face="arial"><br /></h2><h2 class="title" face="arial"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">David Ralston Winner of “The Richard Coley Award for Sculpture 2010”</span></span></h2><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UhNh8Wwu5Rg/TWKFD7ZwepI/AAAAAAAAAHI/kmq7vx7ePzE/s1600/DSCF2870.JPG"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hrwi_eF6CKQ/TWJ9-YWiYMI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/TQle7C6KCKo/s1600/StranraerDGlife001-small.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><a href="http://www.davidralston.co.uk/"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">www.davidralston.co.uk</span></span></a></h2><h2 class="title" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></h2><h2 class="title" face="arial"><br /></h2><h2 class="title" face="arial"><br /></h2><h2 class="title" face="arial"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">David Ralston Winner of “The Richard Coley Award for Sculpture 2010”</span></span></h2><h2 style="font-family: arial;" class="title"><br /></h2><h2 style="font-family: arial;" class="title">“The movement of stones”</h2> <span style="font-family:arial;"> “The movement of stones”</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">by David Ralston</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Over recent years my art practice has focused on constructed and engineered objects. These have taken different forms, primarily automata and clocks. My concerns in making these works were ideas of decay, ruin and the nature of time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In 2007 I began a series of sculptures in rock, I am now exploring and developing concepts of latency, relative time and the realignment of nature.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This significant development in my work takes my practice into different realms, creating objects by reduction rather than construction.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Dumfries and Galloway 2011</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhZjmjI_w-I/TWKOJB6giLI/AAAAAAAAAHw/zeEIrmjk3L4/s1600/DSC01835.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhZjmjI_w-I/TWKOJB6giLI/AAAAAAAAAHw/zeEIrmjk3L4/s320/DSC01835.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576175574421899442" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">email: ralston2u@yahoo.com</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9lh8AL-xAOE/TWKN_qfh6iI/AAAAAAAAAHo/rxfTtlmvhhA/s1600/DSC01823.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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