Introducing Bronze Sculptor Philip Wakeham

Artist Biography

Philip Wakeham is a self-taught contemporary figurative sculptor working exclusively in bronze. He believe it is the job of the artist to produce symbols of non-verbal understanding. His work is visual art, this is important to understand. It is to be understood through your eyes and allowing room to connect with the viewer beyond words. It’s fun to talk about things to converse, it is one of the joys of being human, but so much cannot be expressed in words. Words can only describe what you already know or try to communicate something new through analogy with what you already know, blue can never be communicated in words . The visual has a direct path into our minds and hearts, and he aspires to create work so beautiful, so arresting, that for if just one moment all thought stops.  Although he did attend art school, none of the skills he used were learnt there, except for the ceramic shell casting process which he learnt at the Royal Academy of Art under David Reid, though by then he had already taught himself lost wax casting with pewter in his kitchen. Everything else was from books, endless experimentation and a somewhat reckless willingness to learn through actually doing.