Alan Milligan - Sculptor
Sculpture
I find there is something most expressive about molten metal, like making still a moment in time. The way the fluid movement becomes solid and the heat subsides to allow us access to a deeper knowing through a prelonged look or even touching the object.
Bronze is a remarkable material even capable of capturing textures as subtle as its maker's fingerprint. It is such an ancient and resistant material perhaps even responsible for planting the concept of immortality into human conciousness.
To make work in bronze is to silently amplify an idea for a very long time.
Earth silhouette creates an island from which grows a treechair on which sits an egg of stone.
Bowl made of cupped hands. Cast aluminium.
Molten lead and stone
Molten lead and Seaglass.
Wax for winged boat.
Wax winged boat detail aft where boat becomes folded wings.
Cast using bronze age inspired techniques.
Lead formed over a stone with three indentations. Possible a stone age tool.
Bronze boat set into torn wave of wood.
Lead formed over stone. Possible stone age tool. Inspired by the heavy rain on the surface of the Lough seen at eye level when out in my canoe.
Bronze. I sail pulling a plough. Analogous to the conscious and the subconscious?
"In life we distract ourselves from the voices of the dead." Waiting for Godot
Bronze salmon mounted on Lough Erne eroded sandstone
Chalk on blackboard.
Bronze Irish medieval style bell. Cast using a bird feather.
Bronze on Bog Oak.
A rugby trophy commissioned for the Happy Days Beckett Festival. To be awarded to the winners of the first game of the season. The name "Muckball" comes from Beckett's description of the Earth. I interpreted this into the mud splashing around the rugby ball in the moment of triumph of scoring a try on a wet Fermanagh day. Bronze mounted on Bog Oak. (with lazer cut plaque).
Bronze log boats on waves.
Bronze, Log boats on waves of increasing strength.