JILL TWEED (B. 1935)
Ram
signed, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark TWEED 2/3 (to the rear left leg)
bronze with a dark-brown patina
86.4 cm (34 in) long

Ram was commissioned in 1996 by P H Gillingham Investments Ltd in Cirencester in Gloucestershire. The first cast from the edition of three is on public display in the town at the Woolmarket. Tweed's work focuses on movement and the life force in human and animal forms. Based in Oxfordshire, she traied at the Slade School of Art and has had numerous solo exhibitions in London, most recently at the Messums Gallery, London in 2008. Ram is a beautiful piece which posseses a particularly expressive energy in its stance and the tactile rendering of the forms of the head and patches of wool on the back.