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Tim Forbes – The Forbes
Sculptures Over the
past five years, Tim Forbes has transitioned from being one of
Canada’s pre-eminent communication designers to one of this
country’s most exciting contemporary sculptors.
Born in Halifax Nova Scotia
in 1949, Forbes studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
before dropping out to dive into the entrepreneurial world.
At seventeen, he created the
first entertainment-booking agency on Canada’s East Coast. The need
for creative promotional materials for his artists, concerts and
arts organizations launched his innate artistic and communication
skills into graphic design. His clients soon spread across the
country.
Relocating to Toronto at age
28 in ‘77, Forbes was soon to become Canada’s leading producer of
marketing, advertising and communications materials for the
performing arts, television and film industries. From Royal
Commissions to Canada’s top law firms and financial institutions,
retail to social conscience, a who’s who of corporations,
organizations and government agencies have relied on the efficacy of
his international award-winning designs.
Most recently, after several
years of private experimentation, the urge to create beyond the
two-dimensional aspect of digital-driven design became a stronger
and more forceful desire.
Moving to his country
studio in the spring of 2006, Forbes focused on his important new
work. In a matter of months the powerful graphic sculptural pieces
moved from clay into cast bronze.
Forbes comments: “With the
inaugural suite it was very clear to me that while the clay emoted a
transfixing emotion, the currency of bronze was so valuable in its
tradition, beauty and intrinsic stability. Also, my great desire to
connect with modernity, setting and architecture as an envelope of
the human condition has urged me to draw my pieces into distinct
public and private installations.”
Forbes’ three-dimensional
work is both a comforting continuation and a startling departure.
Indeed, there is little work like it that combines such a
sophisticated sense of design with such daring and unorthodox
expression.
11.26.06
by Tim Forbes
Bronze
6 x6 x 6 1/2 inches
(mounted on a marble base 7 x7 x 1 1/4 inches) |
