UNUSUAL SCULPTURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 6

UNUSUAL SCULPTURE

FIGURE BY MAURICE LAMBERT. UNITED KINGDOM PAVILION. Dominating the central court in the fine United Kingdom Pavilion building at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition is the sculptured figure, larger than life-size, by Maurice Lambert. The theme of the building is commuiiications and transport and the figure has been conceived as a symbol of power—reaching the earth from an unknown source. It is an unusual work and is bound to cause a great deal of comment from visitors to the pavilion, to whom this figure, modelled in the

traditions of the modern school of sculpture, will be a new artistic experience. The work is in the form of a winged figure alighting on the earth and holding between its outstretched hands spindled-shaped forms, symbolical of energy, from which waves of power—represented by a metallic spiral-sweep down on and encompass the globe. Though the figure has orthodox facial features, the body, arms and legs are distorted to lend added strength to the design. The figure's arms are almost at thick as its thighs; it has disproportionately large hands and feet and a slim trunk and hips. The figure’s feet are touching a globe, and between the large hands are held the spindleshaped forms, from which the waves of power in the form of winding strips curve down to the globe beneath. The figure is excellently placed in an ideal setting for sculpture and its unusual proportions make it a striking feature in the pavilion—as indeed it is intended to be. The interior of the United Kingdom Pavilion is complete. The display of its many hundreds of models includes ships, aeroplanes, locomotives and motor-cars, and in each of these four sections is traced the development and progress of transport from the very first days to modern times.