- Venue
- Royal British Society of Sculptors
- Starts
- Thursday, September 24, 2009
- Ends
- Friday, January 8, 2010
- Address
- 108 Old Brompton Road London SW7 3RA
- Location
- London
‘It is with great personal pleasure that I join the RBS in celebrating the endeavors of the inaugural Award winner, Robert Worley, whose sculpture Avatar we look forward to welcoming to Canary Wharf in 2010.’ George Iacobescu CBE, Chief Executive Officer Canary Wharf Group. The Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS) and Canary Wharf Group plc, both committed to promoting excellence and innovation in public art launched the FIRST@108 Public Art Award to provide a unique opportunity for artists new to public art to develop the specific skills and experience required to compete for large-scale sculpture commissions.Worley proposed a sculpture which interacts between two opposing forces pulling in opposite directions. The Avatar figure, portrayed as a hawk-like beast has a shrunken human form embedded on its back, a symbiosis which is both parasitic and complementary.
