Anthony Abrahams

Anthony Abrahams’ carefully poised sculpture captures the enduring distinctions between human strength and frailty. This refined stature, where some features are exaggerated and others are repressed, unify to give Abrahams a distinct figurative style, reminding us of our own reverent, playful habits. Following the lauded tradition of British sculpture in the 1950’s and ‘60’s, Abrahams’ intimate process investigates the vitality of the human condition. By sculpting plaster around steel armatures, before casting in bronze using the lost-wax process, he would preserve chisel marks, scrapes, scratches and protrusions to clearly define the tactile process involved in making.

As well as sculpture, Abrahams was an adept printmaker, particularly in monoprint and drypoint techniques. His works on paper exude character and expression; with just a few purposeful lines, or areas of ink, Abrahams defines an entire spectrum of thoughts, movements and relationships.

Anthony Abrahams (1926 – 2019) lived and worked in Gloucestershire. Having read English Literature at the University of Cambridge and the Anglo-French Art Centre in London, he spent a successful career in advertising, before turning to study sculpture. His work is in public and private collections around the UK, Europe and USA, including a suite of prints in the British Museum, and sculpture in the Stroud District Museum Trust Collection. Specially commissioned large-scale sculptures include Walking at the Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood; and Ozymandias for Kings Place, Kings Cross, London.