Two

Artist Gavin Scobie (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1940 - 2012)

Date1984

Object NameRelief

Mediumbronze relief

ClassificationsSculptures

AcquisitionOwned by Aberdeen City Council under the curatorial care of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.

LocationOn Display - St Nicholas Centre

Object numberABDCC001085

About MeThis abstract relief in two bronze panels by Scottish artist Gavin Scobie is located in the St Nicholas Shopping Centre, in the public exterior plaza on the upper level.
Along with works by Roland Piché and Paul Mason it was commissioned through the Aberdeen City Centre Development Scheme and unveiled by Lord Provost Henry E. Rae in October 1985.

Scobie is recognised as one of Scotland's most important contemporary sculptors, although he is now based in London. Inspired by a sculpture exhibition held in London in 1982 Scobie developed an interest in the sculpture of the Nigerian people of the Nok culture. This period, two years prior to the production of 'Two', also saw the output of a series of drawings and clay relief faces which displayed a more relaxed and rougher approach than he had employed previously.

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This abstract relief is on the deck above the St Nicholas Shopping Centre. Scobie was one of Scotland's most important sculptors, possibly inspired here by his admiration for Nigerian folk culture