Millennium Optimism
Millennium, Optimism is influenced by Peter Thursby’s interest in architectural forms. At once both huge and elegant his work is strikingly original in its viewpoint.
Experimental in his drawing Thursby takes the best of the past and incorporates it into the present. His work is often alternates polished and painted surface. A master of diverse media such as: bronze, aluminium, stainless steel and silver. He develops ideas based around themes such as human figures, heads, architectural shapes, mechanical objects, flights and spires. His work transforms the way we look at the world ordering chaos and transforming the way in which we view it.
Experimental in his drawing Thursby takes the best of the past and incorporates it into the present. His work is often alternates polished and painted surface. A master of diverse media such as: bronze, aluminium, stainless steel and silver. He develops ideas based around themes such as human figures, heads, architectural shapes, mechanical objects, flights and spires. His work transforms the way we look at the world ordering chaos and transforming the way in which we view it.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 85/2001/2
- Collection Class
- Sculpture
- Medium
- silver on
- Common Name
- Millennium Optimism
- Simple Name
- sculpture
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- England
- Production Date
- 2000
- Production Person Initials
- Peter
- Production Person Surname
- Thursby
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
