The Burden of Wings
The Burden of Wings continues Llew's recent exploration of wing forms: sometimes a single wing, but more often combined with the human form. The angel bears the moral weight of her wings and the wings in some sense could represent the cross. To have been made an angel brings with it a moral imperative to take an ethical position - to stand up for what is right. This particular angel, unlike most seen historically in painting and sculpture, does not have arms; the wings have fully taken the place of those, in this case, superfluous appendages. The work is in Takaka marble and is around 1300x600x500mm.
Llewelyn Summers
Sculptor
Hope with Wings
Hope with Wings is a large (approximately 1200mm high) bronze work continuing Llew’s current preoccupation with the wing form, mostly, but not exclusively, attached to bodies. These “angels” are an obvious melding of the human and the divine – bringing an explicitly spiritual dimension to his work and highlighting its importance to human existence. Yet while emphasising this non-physical element there is nothing insubstantial about the wings; they are extremely real and tactile. The work will be exhibited during ShapeShifter, February-March 2010 at the NewDowse, Lower Hutt.
Butterfly
Llew's work was purchased for permanent placement in the Auckland Botanic Gardens following its inclusion in their inaugural exhibition in 2007. The inspiration for this form was a dance, and the name Butterfly was chosen because of the wing-like limbs and also because of its sense of flight. Butterfly is around 1800mm high. You can download a picture of Butterfly HERE
