Torsion II, cast iron, by Charles Hadcock.
The Canary Wharf estate website:
It is an example of the artist’s practice of revisiting his sculptures over time, transforming them in the process, part of his strategy to kick-start new ideas and new sources of inspiration.
Here Hadcock added further sections to an existing work Torsion I
I was particularly taken with a stone monolith Torsion, I liked the stepped sections that curved around the whole. I imagined giant hands taking hold of the piece and twisting it to form the irregular trunk-like shape. I also enjoyed the observation made by eventual buyers of Torsion II. The new owners likened the sculpture’s form to that of the slow unfurling of vine tendrils.
Charles Hadcock was born in Derby in 1965. He studied fine art at the Royal College of Art (1987-1989) specialising in sculpture. His first solo exhibition was in London in 1991.
Many of his public works are cast in iron and can be seen in numerous sites in London and around the country. In 2008 Hadcock was made Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
