Peter Logan has made kinetic sculpture since leaving the Slade School London. Creating sculptures of physical movement to express the spirit of life is the essence of his work. Mathematics and engineering are combined with his multi-discipline sculpture.
Nails was donated to the Trust in 1997.
Logan’s wind sculptures pursue excellence, harnessing the forces of nature in search of harmony between modern technologies and open-air environments. Expressive movement is the essential ingredients of these sculptures. Thye surprise viewers with constantly changing shapes and forms, presenting a celebration of life. This art is realised through the highest standards of engineering technology to make inventive structural forms, indivisible from their images of simple and familiar objects. These elegant and delicate works are in fact extremely strong and robust.
Early works 1969-79 were rigorously composed performances of electronic, mechanical ballets, programmed to repeat each performance as composed. At first these were exhibited in interior spaces and later in outdoor locations. While working outdoors alongside nature Logan developed from 1975 his wind energised sculptures. These sculptures began exploring random performance in extensive time frames across the seasons of the year. Most of these sculptures are large sale and capable of withstanding extreme weather conditions for long periods of time. The locations of his permanent installations are varied and often surprising form a classical garden to a modern comprehensive school, hospital grounds and a windy corner of an inner city area.
