Rod Mengham visits Michael Warren’s exhibition at Visual in Carlow where his investigation into the timeless nature of wood is seen to monumental effect in the Caryatids.
Michael Warren has worked with a wide range of materials over the forty years of his activity as a sculptor, but the material that he started with, and that he has turned to more often than to any other alternative, is wood. His relationship with wood is founded in his practical experience of direct carving, but it has also evolved as a conceptual focus for his thinking about sculpture more generally.
