In the latest of my series of audio interviews with contemporary artists, sculptor Beth Carter talks about the symbolic significance of her bronze sculptures of animals and hybrid animals, how the minotaur became an obsessive subject of her work as she explores ideas of power, vulnerability, and grief, how the theme of duality in her sculptures references part of the human condition, and how one particular charcoal drawing became a way to help process a dark incident in her past.
Beth Carter talking with Bob Chaundy
Fallen Minotaur
Giant Minotaur Reading and Minotaur with Moth
Hollow King
Monkey and Hare, Fox and Pheasant, Wolf with Deer
The Long Way Home
Fighting Clowns III
Bacchus
All images are © Beth Carter
Watch Beth drawing Minotaur and Bird in a time-lapse recording here
You can see more of Beth’s work on her website
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
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