British, Contemporary, bronze, cast in a limited edition of 6. Brought to The Walk by Messums
Artist - One of the few sculptors who operates his own foundry, Edwards trained in bronze casting at the Royal College of Art with Sir Antony Caro before studying traditional techniques in India and Nepal, enabling him to establish his distinctive practice that explores entropy, time and humanity’s relationship with landscape. His work ranges from the colossal 26-foot Yoxman beside the A12 to his celebrated Walking Men series.
Work - Laurence Edwards’ Walking Men is less a series of sculptures than a sustained meditation on movement, transformation, and human becoming. The figures - elongated, weathered, and often incomplete - exist in a state of perpetual transition, neither arriving nor departing, but always in passage. Constructed of clay and organic materials they emerge in bronze as a narrative on our own symbiotic relationship with the environment.