Tim Pomeroy is considered one of the most thoughtful and gifted stone carvers of his generation. His recent sculptures draw their inspiration from a variety of sources, and reflect the pluralistic nature of an artist whose main interests besides the visual arts, lie in poetry, music and archaeology. He is equally at home gleaning ideas from the man-made, designed world as he is looking at the rhythms and patterns created in nature. He feels driven by the wonder of simply being in the world. This is one of the principle propellants of his making.
Of his practise he says (among other things) he is trying to address that longing posited in Towards the Solstice by Adrienne Rich ;
‘ if I could know
In what language to address
The spirits that claim a place
Beneath these low and simple ceilings,
Tenants that neither speak nor stir
Yet dwell in mute insistence
Till I can feel utterly ghosted in this house’
..and..
..that at their best, his sculptures are trying to invent the sought-after language that communes with what was once described as the Sacred. He feels a spiritual paucity in the increasing consumerism and secularisation of society. A lack that he openly regrets. A lack he feels his art works try to address.
‘whereof one cannot speak therefore one must be silent’ Wittgenstgein famously said. Tim Pomeroy agrees with Ian Hamiton Finlay’s rejoinder to this ‘that if we cannot speak about something we should change to the visual language in order to express those things for which verbal language is inadequate.’ This Tim Pomeroy does with great skill.
The artist’s complexities of character and motivation invest Tim Pomeroy’s sculptures with a unique thoughtfulness and ambition. The work’s diversity the product of an excited and active mind always probing and finding new meaningful answers to the profound and never ending questions about the nature of being.
His sculptures are better understood within this context. Any viewer of his work will gain valuable insight by being aware of this. Also a master-draughtsman, his drawings have an attack and incisiveness which is the ambitious shadow of his sculpture work. He makes etchings and ceramics all of which contribute to the breadth of his oeuvre.
Pomeroy's work is in multiple important collections including the Duke of Devonshire, Cawdor Castle,The Wellington Collection, National Museum of Scotland, The Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Esme Fairbairn Foundation, Glasgow City Council, Angus Council, Archdiocese of Glasgow.