Plaster Circle by Harry Thubron

Low relief plaster form, depressed to form a rounded square, set on laminated ply with angled lower right edge. The plaster has inscribed or scraffito lines, and the two points of highest and lowest relief are accentuated with brown lines. A square hole to left, through plaster and wood.

Artist:	Harry Thubron
Artwork type:	sculpture
Style/Period:	abstract/ 1960s
Material:	Plaster and wood
Measurements:	Plaster 527 x 553 mm, on wood 73.7 cm x 73.7 cm square with angled lower edge
Technique:	Moulded plaster with some painted detail, attached to wood back
Date:	1962
Culture:	English
Rights owner:	Elma Thubron
Rights status:	UK HE use only
Institution:	University of Leeds
Notes:	Made in 1962, the last year of Harry Thubron's time at Leeds College of Art, this piece reflects something of his teaching methods - a celebration and encouragement of spontaneity and inventive exploration of ideas such as line and space, positive and negative, and experimental use of different materials. It is typical of his interest and enthusiasm for assemblage, and the potential for an expressive tension between two and three-dimensional form.

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