Spring Sixty-Seven by William Pye

Accession Code: wu0049 Title: Spring Sixty-Seven Date completed: 1967 Medium: Sculpture Materials: Nickel plated steel, stainless steel, wood. Height (mm): 1371 Width (mm): 1118 Depth (mm): 635 Inscription: None Location Name: I.M.C. Location Description: Phase III Location Floor: 1

Pye is noted for his use of highly polished steel. In this work he has incorporated a curved sheet of steel which reflects and distorts both the viewer and the sculpture's surroundings. These change as one walks around the piece, adding a further sense of movement to the springing tubular form. There are also some ambiguous negative spaces ingeniously created by the reflections of the tubular forms in the sculpture's base.