Paul Kincaid Exhibition

Paul Kincaid

Free Exhibition in The Courtyard Gallery
Friday 7 November 2025 –To Saturday 10 January 2026

Hailing from a Catholic background, Kincaid’s imagery is strongly influenced by Biblical themes; he describes his sculpture, likening them to angels, as “difficult earth-born images”, not the soft feathered Seraphim of familiar thought, but ” a heavy, muscular manifestation that pushes out of a dark concentrate, a kind of rich physical loam that contains the seed of life”: “Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return.” These are fixed objects that will not rest; images of sex and death; a paradox of stone that would be flesh. Kincaid’s work is recognisably figurative, yet unfamiliar – inviting touch, without that reassuring softness, that might circumvent further exploration into these tensions of expanded muscle and fat, that provide the perfect issue for allegory.

“The production of Kincaid’s pieces is ritualistic process, ideas are drawn from the subconscious mind and given form by stages: collages of restricted visual matter, chosen by primary response, focus the attention and precede drawings, clay models and finally, carved stone. These models are not slavish transcriptions of anatomical studies, but figurative images, whose structural anatomy is determined by the folded sheet clay; it is this anatomy that carries the spirit of each piece. The fluidity of form produced by this technique, provides the basis of its final transition into stone; Kincaid views consideration of this anatomy in his work as ‘a communication with the non perceived. The Body Mythical and Spiritual’.”
– Miriam Warner