This industrial experience rekindled the artist's engineering skills acquired as an apprentice engineer prior to going to art college, It also provided him with an insight into the importance of team work which is a vital part of manufacturing large scale sculptures for public places.

Over the last 30 years, the sculptor Colin Rose has gone from small scale parodies of daily life to large scale public work, combining natural materials with geometric forms. His acclaimed public works, renowned for their subtlety and humour, are made in dialogue with their surroundings, creating striking interventions into both rural and urban landscapes.

Edge to Edge is the first monograph on Colin Rose, providing an extensively illustrated overview of his career from his early conceptual pieces to recent commissions, situating his practice within the traditions of land art and site specific art.

Introduction

Peter Murray

Colin Rose

Marina Vaizey

Working in the Landscape: Playfulness and Precision

Precarious Motion

lan Thompson

Biography