Soul of A Boy

Soul of a Boy

This work is part of the "Fragile Masculinity" series, inspired by men and boys who struggle to find acceptance for the more vulnerable parts of their natures in a world that often doesn’t make space for the softer incarnations of masculinity. In particular, this work is an art-based response to the loss of the artist’s younger brother, and the manifestation of her compassion and concern for the men and boys who feel pressured to abandon the more tender sides of their natures in order to conform.

Sculpted in water-based clay, a mold was then made to cast subsequent limited editions.

Carole Chaloupka Burton

Carole received her Master of Fine Arts at Toronto’s OCAD University and her BA (Hons) at Sunderland University in her native North East England. Carole specializes in evocative portraiture and figurative sculpture that captures fleeting moments of inner reflection that are both deeply private, and vastly universal. Her sensitive expressive work explores the embodied experience of having memories, thoughts, emotions and intuition contained within our bodies, and seeks to give form to these invisible and difficult-to-articulate feelings and sensations. Themes within Carole’s work include vulnerability, meaning-making and our achingly bittersweet knowledge of the impermanence of embodied mortal life.