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FRANK ROPER RAYS OF LIGHT AUMBRY DOOR

(Lost Polystyrene Process)

Frank Roper has been credited with pioneering this form of casting along with several other artists at the time and it is in this small work that we can see just how fiddly and tricky it was to construct the pattern and hold everything in place .The shafts of light emanating from the centre of the aumbry are thin and spindly and must have been awkward to position in polystyrene let alone push in to the sand …yet his quote below makes it sound easy.

*I like to use polystyrene. This is the most direct means of casting.One can enjoy the modelling and realise that the casting is very little effort.Once i’ve got the thing in polystyrene its almost finished.The polystyrene is sunk into sand.. I use dry sand from one of the beaches down here..you pour metal on top..then the polystyrene vaporises ..the metal fills the space where the polystyrene was ..and you’re left with the aluminium casting…if the casting fails i’ve lost the model*

This Aumbrey door is the perfect example of Frank Ropers sculptural strengths in a small and accessible package.