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‘A Circle of Friends’ by Guy Reid @ Executive Business Channel Ltd
The Edgar Wood Building, Daisy Bank Road, Manchester, M14 5GH
15.06.00 - 12.09.00

‘A Circle of Friends’ is a sculptural installation which aims to reflect on the nature of circles of people and how they act both to invite and exclude others. The heads are twice life size, carved out of lime wood and polychrome painted. The scale and height of the heads and truncated upper torsos accentuates their power and the sense of confrontation, their nudity reflects intimacy and exclusion. Implicit within the piece is a feeling of both the party and the sauna, of openness and privacy, of the trapped secrecy of intimacy.

‘A Circle of Friends’ is intrinsically interactive. Dealing with people, the piece inevitably confronts the observer by presenting an encounter which reflects back at the individual aspects of their own experience of inclusion or exclusion from the group relationship. One thing is certain, the piece does not allow the individual to pass by without demanding something of them.

This exhibition followed with a solo exhibition at The Chorlton Mill gallery in July 2001. Recent commissions include the highly acclaimed and controversial Madonna and Child at Saint Matthew’s Westminster, which received wide press attention. Amongst other works, Reid produced 14 life size sculptures for the Avoncroft Museum in Bromsgrove and was invited to work on a major national commission in Trafalgar Square.

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