Exhibition
just opened
Guy Taplin
5 Feb 2025 – 28 Feb 2025
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 12 Bury Street
- St. James’s
- London
England - SW1Y 6AB
- United Kingdom
David Messum Fine Art in is delighted to be staging a major exhibition of works by the celebrated sculptor, Guy Taplin. The show will be held at David Messum’s gallery at 12 Bury Street, St James’s between 5th - 28th February 2025.
About
Guys studio is a cornucopia of items that serves as a record of the ebb and flow of the life of the coast. Inside the low succession of rooms is chock-a-block with extraordinary things: oversized wooden sculptures, model ships, flags, plates and paintings jostle for space and light. It is a place that has been driven by his creative impulse, powerfully and engagingly driven on an unstoppable white-water journey of making, that surrounds him every day in a constant process of discovery, trial and error, and invention.
Guy Taplin’s hugely sought-after sculpture are instantly recognisable. Grace-filled birds mindfully constructed from driftwood collected with great dedication along the coasts and estuaries of his home. They are pieces which possess a collective memory of the landscape - single birds and flocks, hedgerow birds and waders, rarities and common sights. Some echo old decoys in their naivety, some – in the arrangement of their beaks and wings – have the sophistication of a snatch of baroque music.