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Terry w Scales – Adastra Publishing, 2024
Terry w Scales’s heavily illustrated autobiography describes his progression as an artist, from precocious talent at Hornsey College of Art in the late 1960s to his stunning recent prints, paintings and sculptures created in his studios in Mumbles and near Poitiers in central rural France.
From his youthful radicalism to the optimism of constructivism and modernism, his work now expresses a deep fearful disquiet of our unnatural nature as we become so clearly aware of desecrating our planet. His strong sense of social commitment is driven by the desire to experiment developing new visual languages.
In between his lifelong creative social commitment and the present day there are extraordinary tales of his unique Arts Council of Great Britain-funded multimedia touring company working with artists, dancers and musicians, which was in the vanguard of the transformative ‘art for all’ public art movement of the 1970s, culminating with the Singapore International Arts Festival in 1986, where they represented the UK.
There followed a renaissance in the 1990s with his ‘luminaria’ research into the dynamic abstract patterns and compositions of light that litter our urban and domestic world. His most recent work is strikingly original in its portrayal of the power and beauty of wood.
This 336-page book, with over 700 images, is a spectacular full-colour production and is the first title for a new imprint, Adastra Publishing, set up by Scene & Word to publish the exciting work of living Welsh artists.
ISBN 978-0-9564314-2-4. Price includes UK shipping.
