... sculptors and installation artists who began to exhibit together in London in the early 1980s; Deacon's work is marked by his use synthesis of the natural and the industrial. He manipulates materials such as sheets of metals and laminated wood in addition to leather, cardboard, ceramics, rubber, cloth, chrome, marble and clay. His body of work comprises of small-scale works, larger pieces ... shown in sculpture gardens, and specific commissioned objects. The forms Deacon creates are abstract, yet chock ... full of metaphorical references created by the contradicting elements in his piec...

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