Chameleon

Chameleon

Chameleon

By: Theresa Radcliffe, 1999
Medium: cast bronze
Size: 82 x 90mm
Cast by: Lunts Casting
Edition: 30

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Theresa Radcliffe was born in 1975, and when she produced this medal she had just completed her second year as a sculpture student at the School of Art and Design of Wolverhampton University. Her Octopus medal won the grand second prize in the 1999 BAMS Student Medal Project competition. Other medals by the artist include The Tower of Babel. About her Chameleon medal for BAMS, the artist writes: ‘I have always been fascinated by nature, and the myths that surround it. I find the medal an ideal form to express my amazed reaction at some of the weird and wonderful creatures of this world. The purpose of the rhyme I have inscribed on the reverse is both to celebrate the chameleon and to surround it with an air of mystery and enigma. The chameleon is actually a most graceful lizard, and fits obligingly into a circle. ‘As a general rule I tend to design my medals on the principle of obverse objective, reverse subjective (imaginative or symbolic), and this is particularly the case with Chameleon. On the front I represent primarily how I see the thing, on the back what I feel regarding it.’