Clarion

For one of the British Modernist ‘New Generation’ sculptors of the 1960s, Philip King has worked in a wide range of materials including steel, bronze, wood, fibreglass, slate, clay, wax and plastics. Painted sculpture? Why not? The Ancient Greeks did it! Commissioned in 1981 by Romulus Construction (builders of the Fulham Centre, beside which the work is positioned). The sculpture has always met with mixed reaction. The artist saw it "...in terms of a musical composition; The lower part builds up to a crescendo with a burst at the top". It certainly changes shape and reinvents itself at every angle – in a similar way to the work of his art college tutor and mentor, Anthony Caro.