David Farrer sculpture (wild boar hunting trophy)

David Farrer has deliberately emulated the style of the Victorian and Edwardian hunting trophy. Starting with weeks of painstaking work using single strand wire and layer upon layer of critically placed papier mache strips, the completed heads are mounted on magnificent, traditional French polished shields, the wood for which is carefully sourced from sustainable forests, and finished off with a period style engraved brass plaque. These papier-mache wonders defy their humble medium, yet through the advertent use of text, which covers them, there is a constant reminder of their genuine recycled nature. Words and headlines are carefully selected from discarded colour supplements and positioned on the work to intrigue, challenge, delight and always engage the viewer. The use of the media’s current written material makes the sculpture very ‘of it’s time’, a 3D display of contemporary history, a social commentary of today in montage style, wrapped around the form of that which now falls in a world of taboos, but also exudes nostalgia from an era gone by. Here we have the past and the present stitched together in these beautifully crafted, contemporary creations. Likenesses can be uncanny in their perfection, but a twinkle of humour is always present, inviting debate on that which the sculpture clearly mocks.

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