Llew Summers - Body & Soul

Llew Summers: Body & Soul by John Newton traces the life and work of one of New Zealand's best-known figurative sculptors. It follows Summers from his beginnings as a self-taught artist through decades of public sculpture, showing how his materials, themes and scale developed while he continued to work outside many of the art world's usual hierarchies.

Key features

• Follows Llew Summers' career from early monumental concrete works to later sculpture in wood, marble and bronze.
• Explores recurring themes of nurture, nature, sexuality, spirituality and the human figure.
• Looks at the growing presence of religious imagery in his work from the early 2000s.
• Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including newly commissioned images of his sculpture.

Book details

• Author: John Newton
• Format: Hardback
• Subject: Llew Summers and New Zealand sculpture

An important record of a distinctly New Zealand sculptural career and of an artist whose work became a familiar part of public spaces around the country.