The Queen is Dead, 2019, Richard Stringer
Alabaster
Provenance: Leonard Joel, Melbourne.
Richard Stringer is a Melbourne based artist working across the fields of painting, video and most notably, sculpture. His sculptures are primarily in the hard metals of bronze and aluminium. In order to have a true practical understanding of the medium, Stringer worked in a bronze foundry learning the traditional Egyptian and Greek methods of casting. Not only are his works held in public and private collections, but he also contributes significant pieces of public art works including ‘Queen Bee’ at Eureka Tower in Melbourne. His inspiration for the public art work is one person’s idea of the world, a world influenced by his travels in the Middle East, Egypt and his interest in contemporary Arabic text as a 3D motif in patterning (1).