Biography
I have been self-employed as a designer-maker since 1994. Prior to this I worked for twelve and a half years (the latter half of this time as principal assistant) for Dick Reid in York. The move into self-employment came with the desire to design and make contemporary work with the understanding gained of working with traditional material.
Contact details
Work tel: 07970 439162
Website: http://www.axisweb.org/artist/charlesgurrey
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Image Gallery
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Title: Alcuin
Dimensions: 8 foot high
Media: Cadeby limestone
Description: Figure in relief for York Minster Library extension.
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Title: Drawing Room chimneypiece for Arthington Park
Media: Limewood and tulipwood
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Title: Text Roundel
Dimensions: 1.5 metres diameter
Media: Caithness stone with cast bronze lettering
Description: Commissioned text from Gillian Clarke, National poet for Wales, worked as raised bronze text for siting at Civic Offices, Vale of Glamorgan council, Barry.
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Title: Crucifix
Dimensions: 1.3m high
Media: Polychromed oak
Description: Tree of Life Crucufix for Hackney Free School.
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Title: VC Memorial
Dimensions: 2.6m high
Media: Caithness stone
Description: Public memorial for Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells. Text from especially commissioned poem by then Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.
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Title: Font
Dimensions: 1m high
Media: Sycamore and bronze
Description: Nave font; York Minster.
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Title: Guildford Cathedral figurework
Dimensions: various heights up to 2.8 metres high
Media: Clipsham limestone
Description: North and Central bays of Cathedral West front
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Title: In Sun
Dimensions: 600mm cube
Media: Moelfre limestone
Description: Textwork for exhibition at The New Art Centre, Roche Court. Text supplied by the poet, Josephine Dickinson.
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Title: Heraldic Ledger
Dimensions: 2m long
Media: Branshaw sandstone
Description: Ledger memorial for family burial plot at Heslington, York.
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Title: Choir Screen Figures
Dimensions: 920mm high
Media: Lepine limestone
Description: Figures of St Ethelburga and Bishop Eborius for York Minster
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Title: Nativity Figures
Dimensions: 500mm high
Media: Polychromed oak
Description: Figures for St Mary the Virgin, Nunthorpe in Cleveland, Middlesbrough.
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Title: Commemorative Plaque
Dimensions: 1.6m high
Media: Welsh slate
Description: St Mary the Virgin, Nunthorpe in Cleveland
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Title: St Giles
Dimensions: 1.4m high
Media: Polychromed oak and fired, painted glass
Description: St Giles, Matlock
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Title: Stone Memory
Dimensions: 1.3m high
Media: Lincoln Silverbed limestone
Description: Exhibited at West Dean College, Sussex. On permanent show at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire.
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Title: Bronze and aluminium signage for Bradford Cathedral.
Dimensions: 2.14m long
Media: Bronze and aluminium
Description: State Gate, Church Bank and SE Porch Door entrances and Stott Hill frontage at Bradford Cathedral.

