Louise Simson - Edward Alleyn Maquette

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Louise Simson was born in London in 1960. Having learnt certain practical techniques while studying History of Art at Edinburgh University she started painting oils of actors and actresses from their performances at the National Theatre between 1981-86. Capturing the actors' movement became a way of defining not only the person, but also the character they were portraying. Most of these paintings are now in private collections. Amongst the actors painted were Jack Shepherd in Midsummer Night's Dream, Judi Dench in The Importance of Being Ernest, and John Normington in Danton's Death. A number of commissions were also completed in Washington and Philadelphia in 1986. Buyers include Richard Thomas (John Boy Walton), Zach Grenier (Fight Club) and Allison Janney (The West Wing).

Between 1986 and 1990 she worked in film, television and theatre. Films include Sour Sweet directed by Mike Newall, television includes Paradise Club produced by Selwyn Roberts. She did costumes for a number of stage productions, including some directed by Jack Shepherd. These include In Lambeth with Bob Peck, and King Lear with Oliver Cotton. A visit to Egypt in 1990 led to exhibitions of paintings completed there and she took her interest in Egypt further by reading for a BA and then an MA in Egyptian Archaeology.

In 2001, as a direct result of the stupendous Wimbledon Final between Pat Rafter and Goran Ivanisevic she was inspired to sculpt Pat Rafter in bronze. She worked from one of her own photographs taken while he was serving. As a result of the interest this bronze created she was asked to sculpt a bronze of the Wimbledon winner annually, again from her own photographs. Last year Louise was also commissioned to produce a bronze of David Beckham scoring the goal against Greece that put England into the World Cup Final.

She says that her continuing passion in her sculptures is the portrayal of movement. As with her paintings of actors, she has also used movement to portray story and character in her maquette of Edward Alleyn. She lives and works in south east London.

The dimensions:

22 x 17inches

Medium:

Bronze sculpture

The reserve price is £3000.

The sculpture which was be displayed, as an example, at the Art Fair is no. 5 of 10 (shown below) The other photograph shows the full size version in the grounds of the Chapel.

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Payment is to be made via Paypal, through the auction site.

It will take Louise 8 weeks to create the sculpture. Arrangements for collection are to be made through the Development Office: laura.hooper@jags.org.uk; 020 8299 8417.

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