2024
Rose was commissioned by the family of sculptor Roy Noakes to create a film for an exhibition celebrating his work.
Roy Noakes (1936 – 2002) was a British portrait and figure sculptor, working predominantly in bronze. His work often explores the subtleties of the human form as something transient and often abstracted. These ideas are conjured in bronze through frayed edges left after casting, and the way faces and bodies emerge and disappear with the changing light. His sculptures make one consider how materials shift our ideas of form and meaning, and how as such long-lasting objects they create a sense of people in time; their presence and absence. You can find out more about his work here.
An exhibition of Roy Noakes’s work ‘vanishing silhouettes’ took place in Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire in May-June 2024 curated by Biddy Noakes. The film captures the sculptures at home in and outside Roy’s nearby studio, where the changing light and the come and go of farm animals bring a particular sense of place to the delicate and extraordinary sculptures.
The music for the film is Movements from ‘Suite for Flute, Viola and Harp’ 1968 by Alan Rawsthorne. The musicians are Flute: Anna Noakes, Viola: Bob Smisson, Harp Gabriella Dall’Olio. It was recorded by Louis Leatherbarrow in Thaxted Church, Essex.