I have come to the belief that we are here on earth as a challenge to find our way “home.”
Graham Radcliffe (1934 — 2022)
I started my working life as a tradesman, a fitter and turner, at fifteen.
I had no aspirations to be an artist until I was well into my forties. I started painting, but quickly moved into sculpture. I am self taught.
I am one of the foundation members of the Sculptors Society of Queensland.
My first works were in sandstone and steel. In fact I started a business and called it Decorative Steel and Stone. DSS, for I had a family to support and educate. But after my sons had graduated from University, I distanced myself from normal civilisation and started to become a sculptor full-time.
In 1987 I went with my new wife to Italy to work in marble. I have been travelling in this direction ever since. I have had a few exhibitions over the years in Australia, Switzerland and Germany.
In travelling this path, I have come to the belief that we are here on earth as a challenge to find our way “home.”
Just as the earliest men tried to express their relationship with their Creator, I too, try to explore this direction. Each work must become simpler and purer in form, just as we travel to the end of life shedding that which is not required on the journey. Each work must be an offering to God, not man. Each work must be undertaken with love.
Brancusi being a Romanian, believed that on death, the soul changed into bird form and flew to the spirit world. Which is a nice way of putting it.
