Artist: Alan Williams
Commission / type: Completed work; sold to a private client
Dimensions: H 60 × W 40 × D 50 cm
Display / installation: Freestanding on a removable ironwood sea-defence timber base
Current location / status: Private client, France
Price / value: £5,800
Previously catalogued as Poised, this work is now titled Red Tailed Hawk. Alan used several photographs of red-tailed hawks in the wild as reference, focusing on the intensity of a raptor correcting itself in a gust of wind while preparing to launch an attack.
The reclaimed ironwood sea-defence timber came from The Wood Recycling Project in Brighton. The hawk can be removed from its base: a short vertical steel bar beneath one foot locates into a hole in the timber.
Made from cutlery, garden shears, retired tools, bicycle and motorbike sprockets, chain and gears. The sea-defence timber is set in resin inside a metal-edged frame forming the base.
The metalwork is finished with clear-coat lacquer.
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