Studio of
David Hope
Bronze coaxed into the memory of a gesture —
sculpture where weight, at last, learns to move.
(01) — Statement
I do not carve figures. I listen for the moment a material decides to stand, then I hold it there — patina cooling over the gesture, marble keeping its weight beneath. Each piece is a held breath in metal.
— D.H.
(02) Selected Works
The Catalogue
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Bronze · 168 cm · Unique
(03) Figure Studies
Her hands
hold what
flight forgot.
A small bird settled in the warmth of her hands as if it had always meant to be there. The bronze keeps the moment without forcing it: the creature still, the woman still, neither one ready to break the quiet between them. This is not devotion. This is the shape of complete trust.
- MediumPatinated cast bronze
- FinishHand-worked, oxidised
- SeriesOffering Studies, ongoing
(04) The Studio
David Hope works between foundry and forest — modelling in wax, casting in bronze, then setting each form upon stone quarried for its weight.
His vocabulary is small and obsessive: the wave, the wing, the standing figure, the bird mid-rise. Forms are abstracted until only momentum remains, then finished by hand so the light has somewhere to travel.
Pieces are produced as unique works or in editions of no more than eight, each mounted on Carrara or Nero Marquina marble. Work is held in private collections across Europe and shown by appointment.