Diver, 1987

MICHAEL SNAPE
Diver, 1987
Sheet steel
500 x 315 x 140 cm

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Artist Michael Snape. Title Diver, 1987. Michael Snape was trained as a sculptor in Sydney at the East Sydney Technical College. Snape’s early works focused on abstract welded steel sculptures, but later he found inspiration from a figurative sculptor Auguste Rodin. Diver further explores figurative sculpture and his engagement with Picasso. The painted cutout steel figure of the diver with enlarged hands, splayed legs and plunging torso anchored by wave-like supporting struts carries a direct response to Sydney’s foreshores and ocean beaches.