Dickerson Gallery

Jamieson Miller, Robert Delves, Michael Sibel
February 28 - March 18 2001
{Sue Boucher}

Tucked behind the busy strip known for its shopping bargains and consumer gluttony, Bridge Road in Richmond, is the tranquillity and olden day charm of Waltham St. Dickerson Gallery, flaunting the quaint enchantment of bluestone and low lying wooden roof struts, heralds this transition and is a prize discover for those in the know. Being an enticingly rhythmic space with its high and low points of floor, it alludes to a space to be occupied in manners that other exhibition spaces repel.


'Genetic Cow', 1998, Zinc Coated Steel & Perspex, 60 x 30 x 30cm- Robert Delves

Directed by Stephan Nall this Gallery, despite its obvious charm, is not a big space so on hearing that three sculptors where intent on showing in the space together, I was a little curious or perhaps you could say bemused. The results however can not be compared to that presented on the invitation, and although jammed packed, the space has held up to the scale and diversity of the work in far reaching ways with, I am pleased to add, very few pedestals.


'Mollusc' 2000, Mild Steel 30 x 21 x 91cm- Jamieson Miller

Despite their long term alliance these three artists stem from very different pasts. Metal is skilfully mastered and dealt with by all of them in extreme methods, allowing as a consequence, the work to sit along side with the air that each deserves. Through their individual processes they command different associations with the viewer, compelling tension and relief as the space is traversed. Jamieson Miller’s skeletal forms, mimicking voluminous sacks or vessels for space draw the viewer into their core. Comforted by this inner dwelling, there is playful colour and reflection occurring as Michael Sibel’s cast aluminium and resin work offers sentimental poise with vertical opposition as balance reaches impossible limits.


'Contact' 2001, Polyester Resin Aluminium, 80 x 30 x 30cm- Michael Sibel

Lending itself to more humour than the other two Robert Delves compartmentalises and idealises stylised icons of the every day in to repeated symbols offered to us as play.

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