Creative sparks help sculptor shape new exhibition pieces

METALWORK sculptures by an artist who has produced works for public spaces nationwide are undergoing the finishing touches before they go on display at a Yorkshire gallery next month.

Hilary Cartmel, who works from a studio in the village of Styrrup, on the border between Doncaster and Nottinghamshire, makes her art using a welding torch and angle grinders.

But despite the brutal method of creation, the results have been hailed by art experts as “describing the intangible and transient such as the human imagination and memory, in a physical form”.

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Ms Cartmel’s public commissions include a series of huge metal screens which are installed at Rotherham’s public transport interchange, wall tiles along a canal towpath in Beeston, Nottingham and paving inlays in the centre of Banbury, in Oxfordshire.

The heads which the artist is currently creating will form part of an exhibition of her work called It’s All in the Mind which opens at Beverley Art Gallery next month.

The gallery’s curator, Sally Hayes, said: “We are delighted to be exhibiting Hilary’s work at the gallery. The sculptures are beautifully crafted , have intriguing poetic titles such as Head with Empty Nest, and we are sure they will appeal to a wide range of visitors.”