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Summary on the back cover

From Head to Head tells a twenty-year story of bronze casting and of twenty bronze heads forged in heat and fire. It pays tribute to an extraordinary process, capable of replicating the exquisite details of a fine cotton dress, or the veins on a precious oak leaf. It describes a language of love, and the personal, often painful reflections born of an emotional journey through its loss and recovery – all this, transformed into bronze, to be held in place forever. Now, we find further transformation between these pages, as Jennifer retraces her steps through twenty years of creativity and exploration, wending her way across the Butley salt marshes, via Panama, Haiti and Kenya.

Victoria Proctor

All around us fashioned objects reveal confrontations between the will and the material, whether it be heroic or pathetic, awesome or desultory, the evidence is left, and through the timeless study of forms and surfaces, we find both the frailty and the hubris of the human. However, hard the maker tries to conceal themselves under the auspices of craftsmanship or the touch of genius, a subconscious will lurk and bubble to the surface. In Jennifer Hall’s Head series it is obvious, whether conscious or not, that this energy was tapped and luckily for us it flowed.’

Laurence Edwards