Sculptor goes miniature for new exhibition (From The Northern Echo)

Sculptor goes miniature for new exhibition

5:13pm Friday 3rd February 2012 in Darlington

A SCULPTOR best known for his large-scale public art has opened a new exhibition that has a more intimate feel.

It’s Not True, But It Might Be Beautiful, by Joseph Hillier, is the latest exhibition at the Myles Meehan Gallery in Darlington Arts Centre, in Vane Terrace.

A preview of the show was held last night ahead of its official opening today.

Mr Hillier is best known in the area for In Our Image sculpture in Newton Aycliffe, but his new exhibition has a smaller focus.

He said: “Through the sculpture I make I aim to re-interpret the human form by rendering it in new processes and forming it through complex geometric operations.

“By reviewing the body in these ways I aim to reconsider the way we view ourselves, in many terms: from our atomic makeup to our societal structures. The collaboration with various technologies and people in the process of making my sculptures informs the way they are made and as such I strive to create an image of humanity which belongs to it’s place, the here and now, yet is part of a timeless act, to recreate our image in sculptural form.”

The exhibition will be open until March 31.