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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

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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.

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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.

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