Phillip King & Alexandre da Cunha at the Royal Society of Sculptors this month

Two of the leading sculptors working in the UK today are coming together for a unique ‘live collaboration’ at the Royal Society of Sculptors, offering us a rare opportunity to glimpse into the artist’s studio and discover their working practises.

Past President of the Royal Academy, Phillip King CBE will join forces with Brazilian born London based Alexandre da Cunha, to spend a week of practical exchange and discussion in the studio space at Dora House (home of the Royal Society of Sculptors).

Both will both bring materials and equipment to the space and between them explore the process of making. At the end of the week, the space will be left in exactly whatever state it is in, with whatever remains of the exchange on view.

The other room of the exhibition, the salon, will feature a large plinth where small scale sculptures by Phillip and Alexandre will be placed together, in conversation. Some works are independent sculptures, others are models for larger sculptures – so a dialogue between the two artists, as well as a dialogue between large and small, macro and micro, public and private, indoors and outdoors.

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