Lonely Dog
Bronze

Sculptures

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The Artists

These original, hand-sculpted works of art are the result of a collaboration between renowned New Zealand artists Ivan Clarke and Sir Richard Taylor. Ivan Clarke is the originator of “The Lonely Dog™” series, while Richard Taylor is the co-director and founder of world-renown special effects facility Weta Workshop. Taylor and the talented artists at Weta have gained professional recognition for their work, earning four BAFTAs® and five Academy Awards® for their film work. Ivan Clarke is a highly respected New Zealand Artist, known for his powerful landscape paintings and more recently his whimsical world “Alveridgea” and story called “The Lonely Dog™."


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The Creative Process

Each piece of artwork is first conceived in Clarke’s mind and brought to life through a series of sketches and then detailed drawings. At Weta Workshop, these are then realised as “maquette sketches” in clay, a process which helps develop the concept into a working, three dimensional form. The final sculpture is undertaken by Weta’s artists, under the supervision and art direction of Taylor and Clarke. The work is completed with the final pass of fine detailing and preparation for casting.


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The Finished Sculptures

These Sculptures are limited edition works of art that have been reproduced in bronze and hand finished to the highest standards. Each is approved by the artist and has been created utilising the skills of expert artisans at every stage of the process.The castings are created by employing traditional lost-wax techniques. The origins of the lost-wax casting are shrouded in antiquity, but it has been used for thousands of years to create objects in metal which could not be produced any other way, due to the complexity of their forms. The technique permits anything that can be modeled in wax to be faithfully transmitted into metal and is still used today for fine art sculpture.No unsigned or unnumbered copies of these editions are authorised, greatly increasing their collectable worth. These works of art are protected under copyright law and will never be reissued.



Comes with It's own box...
Displayed at Ivan Clarke's Lakeside Gallery.

The auditorium is packed and the audience waits in fevered silence. A single spotlight splits the darkness like lightning illuminating a solitary microphone on stage. Now hounds and cats alike are on their feet, they strain for a first glimpse of the legendary dog who is about to command the spotlight.


Suddenly a silhouetted figure can be seen striding across the stage. Slumped shoulders, roman snout, guitar slung across his back… He steps into the light, swings his guitar across his chest, grabs the mic… “Good evening! I’m Lonely Dog!” The audience erupts in rapturous applause.It was not always so for the little hound with the big guitar.


He began his life as Arthur Snout. Arthur Vantrong Snout to be precise. No one is sure why he was thus named. His parents sadly passed away soon after his birth. Smaller than most other hounds, he had a heart that always seemed larger. Raised in the Houndside County Orphanage he recalls many a time when all he had left was that big heartedness.


He credits his old headmaster, Rolph Flannegan, with planting that first musical seed. A seed that would later bloom into the legendary “hound-sound.” “He took me to Revellers Green! I’ll never forget it. I had my eyes opened that night!” “I heard Rolph and his revelers houndskiffle that night and I knew, just really knew with all my heart, that that is what I wanted to do!” And do it he did!



LIMITED EDITION BRONZE SCULPTURE OF LONELY DOG CARRYING GUITAR. Limited to 5 S/N (signed and numbered) approximately 140cm in height.


Bronze Figurines