Monolith: Tefaf Maastricht : Art Fair

Works on the booth include Conical, a circular cabinet from a transformative figure of British furniture design, John Makepeace OBE. The most recent commission for the gallery, this piece is made from Oak, Ripple Sycamore, Mulberry, and Bog oak. As Makepeace notes, the circular form is ‘rare in furniture design’, yet Conical is characteristically efficient and elegant, evocative of futurist motifs. We are also delighted to exhibit Vessel #1 (Soma) from London based sculptor Eleanor Lakelin, ahead of her 2024 solo exhibition at Sarah Myerscough Gallery. This momentous work is the latest in Lakelin’s ongoing investigation into burred vessels, inviting a speculative engagement with classical form as well as the deviant growth formations of Horse Chestnut Burr.  

In another play with verticality, we will be exhibiting work from sculptor Frances Pinnock, an emerging artist recently graduated from the Royal college of Art, titled Steady Metronome (Custom Melody). Made from leather, hemp, beeswax, rayon, cotton, brass & lead, Pinnock’s work conjures up images of body clocks and circadian rhythms while abstractly evoking the human form. Alongside this will be a work from one of the UK's leading ceramicists, Julian Stair’s Monumental Figural Jar IV. Made from Carboniferous Shale and standing over six feet tall, Stair’s scaled up vessel marks a quiet seizure of space while re-contextualizing familiar domestic forms. Other gallery artists at Monolith include newly commissioned works from Nic Webb, Arko, Aneta Regel, Ernst Gamperl, Gareth Neal, Christopher Kurtz, Full Grown and Tadeas Podracky, who has recently joined the gallery roster and will present his highly sculpted throne that brings a dynamic vitality to our TEFAF presentation.