Jubilee Oracle (The Queen’s Oracle)

Monumental Works

Alexander produced an ambitious series of monumental works involving space and spatial relationships. His sculptures are always abstract and conceptual and contain biomorphic and geometric elements, which would nevertheless have symbolic qualities.

I would describe my bronze, marble, and stone works from that period as being classical abstract. A characteristic that these works have in common with Moore, Hepburn, Naguchi, and a few others

Monumental Works

Jubilee Oracle (The Queen’s Oracle)

A sculpture on the South Bank of the Thames in London between the Festival Hall and County Hall was commissioned by Parliament to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation.
Bronze 4’x2,6’x2’ 1980

The Cross

This sculpture is the most obvious example of specific symbolism. The cross is void, form carved from surrounding matter
Marble 6’x4’x4,6’ 1981

Oracle 10

The sculpture resembles an opening stem, like a curved pair of hands reaching up.
Bronze 6’x20’x18’, 1981

Pallisandro

Sculpture, made to resemble its natural form, enhances beautiful patterns and markings in the marble. Slightly twisted columnar shape, which suggests the idea of the leaf just beginning to unfurl and separate itself from the parent stem.
Marble 7,6’x2’x8’, 1982

Duet in Bronze

Spinning shells, seeking tranquility and balance in nature.
4,6’x6,6’,1982

The Great Tower

Voluminous 33’ bronze sculpture at Rutland Waters, Leicestershire, England, “The Great Tower,” which at the time was the largest bronze sculpture of modern times.
Bronze 31’x16’x7’,1980

Duet

Duet consists of two related forms, like spinning tops, which have been given a spiral twist that suggests potential motion. More importantly, the relation between them changes as the spectator moves and thus becomes partners in a kind of dance.
Marble 8’x8’x18’,1981

Curved Air7

The wave metaphor in this sculpture moves horizontally, then rises and turns on itself like a breaking wave.
Bronze,4,6’x3,6’x6,6’ 1982

Three White Towers

Sculpture refers t to nature but summons us a different set of cultural differences. Far “Eastern rather than European, resembling mountains painted by great Chinese artists of the Tang and Sung dynasties.
Marble, 6’x3,6’x3,6’ 1982

Alexander is working on Oracle In Stone

1982