LABYRINTHINE, 2025

by Jonathan Hateley

Dimensions: H82cm x W15cm x D35cms

Available in:
Hand Painted Bronze Resin (12 edition), £6,850 incl.VAT
Hand Painted Bronze (9 edition), £20,500 incl. VAT

Made to order: resin (2-3 months) and foundry bronze (3-5 months)

This piece can be placed indoors on its granite base, or outdoors on a custom oak plinth (£650).

Inspiration:

‘Labyrinthine’ was another sculpture born out of the photo shoot with Danielle Cato. After we had cover the shots to go with my sketched designs, we had more time in the photo studio. So I think this sculpture came about after I asked Danielle to do some poses she particularly liked. I immediately asked my photographer friend Chris to do as many shots as I needed for this pose as I knew immediately, I’d like to sculpt it. The question was, what did I want to do with it as far as texture was concerned. It had percolated in my head for some time that I liked the idea of doing something more abstracted, but even that needed to be influenced by something natural. I had found images of brain coral, and I’d distinctly remembered seeing it and being fascinated by it when scuba diving in Australia many years before. So when I actually saw a large dried out piece in a museum cabinet in Osbourne House, Isle of Wight, I saw it as confirmation I was on the right path. I wanted the brain-like forms to echo the pose itself, so after drawing the coral patterns onto the figure, I then separated them into smaller shapes, giving a maze-like effect all over the figure. The title came easy ‘Labyrinthine’ = Physically resembling a labyrinth with the qualities of a maze.