A richly worked assemblage by British artist Peter McClure, this sculptural painting is a shifting terrain of carved planes, collaged textures, scratched marks and elusive glyphs — a work that feels excavated as much as created. Built from stacked and interlocking wooden forms, the piece reads like an abstracted altarpiece or architectural façade, its surfaces bearing the traces of a long, intuitive making process.
Across the artwork, McClure overlays chalky whites, muted greys and earth tones with punctuations of soft colour — pinks, yellows, greens, sudden blues — each softened under the veil of his characteristically weathered patina. Scored lines, drilled constellations of holes, and fragments of drawing sit alongside relief-like shapes, creating a surface that feels simultaneously painterly and sculptural. Every plane carries evidence of touch: erasures, reworkings, hints of something once there and now half-remembered.
Turn the piece and a different composition emerges — more geometric, more rhythmic — revealing McClure’s fascination with shifting viewpoints and the quiet ritual of construction. Signed and dated 2020, it stands as a superb example of his idiosyncratic practice: part Outsider, part Constructivist, part poetic archaeology.
A singular artwork that operates both as sculpture and painting, and one that rewards long looking.
Details
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Artist: Peter McClure (British, b. 1942)
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Title: Assemblage Sculpture
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Date: 2020
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Medium: Mixed media on carved and assembled wood; pigment, collage, incised linework
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Dimensions: H 71 cm × W 47 cm
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Signature: Signed and dated to side of base
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Construction: Multi-layered relief built from individually shaped wooden components
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Condition: Excellent condition
Delivery
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