Phillip King: Sculptor - ACE047.2

Details of sculpture. Phillip King VO describes himself as "an object maker and also a revealer …". King’s studio. King at work, preparing a grid on paper. His VO talking about his sculpture, Open Bound (1973), and about how he uses the grid, in this case, with the idea of a honeycomb in mind and forming a conical shape. "A grid transformed into matter" – 3-D plaster model. The finished Open Bound. Driving on a motorway. King’s VO says that "necessity has made [him] seek out a studio in the country", and that the drive gives him time to think and to observe nature. Arriving at the studio, a farm outbuilding. The grid. A model, in thin metal, of the intended work. Shaping and bending metal plates. King’s VO says that after Open Bound, there was less need than usual to make a model for his next piece which would "be about linkages, and spread, and continuity". He says he enjoys the physicality of sculpture which can often take his mind off problems of a work "that isn’t going right". Welding. VO says the work only begins to involve him when it begins to take shape.