Marshall creates granite sculpture in Sweden, continued ...

“| think it’s a good idea to take students out and give
them experience,” says Marshall, and on his trip to
Sweden he took along John Urquhart. A part-time
student in the Art department, Urquhart works in
welding construction—an occupation that he finds
fits in well with his interest in sculpture.

The weather in Sweden over the summer? “Wet
and rainy,” said Marshall, “but that’s great weather
for working. Everybody else was complaining but it
was very good for us.”

Marshall stayed in Helsingborg from May 2 to
September 19, and his finished piece, “Boalt”, was
installed in the beautifully landscaped grounds of
Sofiero Blott, a palace given to Helsingborg by the
King of Sweden.

Above: Urquhart and
Marshall hard at work in
Helsingborg. Right: Two
views of the finished
work, "Boalt".

This is the second palace that Marshall’s been
intimately connected with inthe last while,
incidentally. Last fall he took part in a Marble
Carving Symposium in Arandelovac, Jugoslavia, and
stayed in the summer palace of the former King of
Serbia (which admittedly has seen better times;
nonetheless it’s an impressive address). He and
assistant, student Brian Addy, started work October
1 and set the finished piece up on December 16.

In Arandelovac, Marshall was working with the
beautiful white marble which the area is noted for,
and he was particularly impressed by the skill of the
local craftsmen in drilling and handling marble.
Although there were some difficulties on that trip, he
summed the symposium up as “an extraordinary
effort in spite of all the frustrations. Jugoslavia is a
very poor country—
we’re rich and we're
doing nothing like that
here.”

If you are interested in
hearing more about
Marshall's trips and
seeing slides of the
work, you should attend
his lecture on Tuesday,
October 13 in the All
College Lounge from
3:00 to 5:00 pm.