Edward AllingtonIdeal Standard Forms 1980

Ideal Standard Forms is a work of central importance in Edward Allington's career to which he has repeatedly referred throughout his working life. It is a floor-bound arrangement of nine geometric plaster shapes, distinguished by the simplicity of their forms. Each part differs - sphere, ellipsoid, cone, cube, etc. - yet they all share the same austere absence of colour and adornment. Most of these blanched forms were made by building up plaster over clay shapes that were later scooped and washed out. Allington writes: 'I worked using a kind of reduction or removal. I would pour and smear plaster over clay shapes, then dig the clay out so that I was left with crude moulds… (read more)