Frank RoperMBE (12 December 1914 – 3 December 2000) was a British sculptor and stained-glass artist who undertook commissions for churches and cathedrals across Wales and England.
In addition to religious commissions, Roper created a wide variety of sculptures which were sold privately and to corporate bodies. His non-religious sculpture included animals and birds, as well as animated sculptures and musical fountains.
Biography
Frank Roper was born 12 December 1914 in Haworth, Yorkshire. He studied at Keighley Art School (meeting his future wife, Nora Ellison) and the Royal College of Art, London, where he was a student of Henry Moore.[1][2] In 1947 he became a sculpture lecturer at Cardiff College of Art,[3] later vice principal until 1964.[4] He retired from the college in 1973 "to be free to play my own games".[1] He lived in Penarth and created his own foundry on the ground floor of his house where he made his metal sculptures.[1] Roper has been credited with inventing the lost-polystyrene casting process.[5]
Two BBC television programmes were made about Roper, one in 1964 ("Mind into Metal – Frank Roper, Sculptor")[5] and the other in 1976 ("Look, Stranger: Sculpture and Singing Fountains", in which Roper was interviewed by René Cutforth). Roper's non-religious sculpture includes cast aluminium figures of birds and animals, some of which were animated; and fountains that produced musical sounds using the principle of the water organ.[10][11]
Two of Roper's works are in the collection of National Museum Wales: St Michael and the Devil and Horse.[12]
Roper was awarded the MBE in 1991[13] for his services to art.
He died at the end of 2000.[1] In 2014 an exhibition marking the centenary year of his birth was held at the Travellers Gallery, Barry.[3] A memorial service at Llandaff Cathedral was held on the centenary date, 12 December 2014.[14][15] The "Frank Roper Centre" opened in February 2019 at the Church of the Resurrection in Ely, Cardiff; a permanent exhibition of Roper's life and works.[16]
Lost-polystyrene casting in aluminium
Roper working at home
Creating a polystyrene figure
Casting in aluminium
Roper was one of the first sculptors to adopt the lost-polystyrene method, almost always casting in aluminium, perfecting the technique in 1964.[17] It is now used widely in manufacturing (known as lost-foam casting).
Over his career Roper worked in wood, stone and bronze,[18] but many of his ecclesiastical commissions, as well as his musical fountains and water clocks, were cast in aluminium. He became interested in aluminium in the 1950s; the Stations of the Cross for St Martin's in Roath, Cardiff, completed in 1959, were an early example of his religious art in the metal.[19]
His work for Christ Church in Roath (1964)[20] may have been his first commission using the lost-polystyrene method, a casting process recognisable by the texture of the metal, as the pitted nature of the expanded polystyrene remains visible.[21]
Modelling in expanded polystyrene allowed Roper to work on a larger scale. It is light and strong, enabling complicated structures to be built. The lower cost of aluminium, compared to bronze for example, made it possible to use sculpture where normally there would not be sufficient money available.[22] Having his own home foundry also kept costs down and allowed for a very direct relationship with the finished work – "conception, creation and casting became one continuous process" he told the Church Times in 1994.[17]
In the 1976 BBC documentary Look Stranger,[10] Roper explains that he would sculpt from a solid block of expanded polystyrene using a hot wire, soldering irons, home-made whittlers and sand-paper:
"I like to use polystyrene. This is the most direct means of casting. One can enjoy the modelling and realise that the casting is very little effort. Once I've got the thing in polystyrene it's almost finished. The polystyrene is sunk into sand. I use dry sand from one of the beaches down here. You pour metal on top, then the polystyrene vaporises, the metal fills the space where the polystyrene was and you're left with an aluminium casting... if the casting fails I've lost the model."
Roper is credited with inventing the process[1][5] although other artists were developing this technique at the same time, including the sculptor Geoffrey Clarke,[23] working in East Anglia. The Canadian sculptor Armand Vaillancourt[24] as well as Alfred M Duca, a sculptor and research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[25] are also noted to have been the first to cast in this way.
Stained and etched glass
Roper has stained glass or etched windows in over twenty churches in Wales and England. His wife Nora, an artist in her own right, influenced the colours[15]
as well as the symbolism depicted in the designs, for example with the 'flower calendar' window in St Michael's Church, Michaelston-le-Pit[18] and Christ in Majesty, a window in St Illtyd's Church, Llantwit Fardre.
His approach to stained-glass windows was unique, combining cast aluminium forms with coloured antique glass and knapped chunks of float glass. These were bonded together in various formations and set into window openings creating a relief form of stained glass.[26]
The cast aluminium incorporated within the designs often added further depth and dimension.[22] "That's the important thing about them", Roper notes in the documentary Look Stranger, "they are primarily sculpture, so at night when there's no light coming in from outside we have an interesting relief."[10] An example can be seen in Virgin and Child, a window in St Augustine's in Rumney, Cardiff; Peter Leech in The Religious Art of Frank Roper describes the "literally outstanding" metal "delineat[ing] the figure emerging from a profundity of deep blue glass".[18]
The sculptural nature of his stained glass can also be seen in his windows depicting the Stations of the Cross at the Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Newcastle Emlyn, with Leech observing "the sombre metal silhouetted against the lambent glass".[18] Another set of Stations of the Cross can be found in St Peter's Church in Chippenham: small intensely coloured, built-in stained glass panels set within aluminium tracery.[27]
Roper's window depicting the Resurrection in St Mary's, Talbenny, Pembrokeshire, one of three in that church, is an example of his use of small chunks of knapped glass fixed to the surface in order to catch and disperse light.[22]
Perhaps his most notable examples of etched glass are at St Peter's Church in Chippenham, including the large St Peter's Window occupying an entire wall and featuring three predominant images of St Peter as well as images linked to St Peter's story.[27] He and Nora were commissioned to provide a comprehensive scheme, which also included sculpture, a screen and stained-glass windows.[28]
Multiple furnishings, mostly in aluminium. Inside: High altar (concrete), support for missal stand, two candlesticks (1964); Lady Chapel altar (concrete), support for missal stand (1964); Processional cross; Altar canopy with inlaid lights; Pulpit balustrade and reading lamp; Small coat of arms; Supports for credence table and flower pot shelf; Confessional desk with frame; Sacristy bell (1998); Font and font cover (1964); Font ewer (tall jug with lid) (1964); Two hymn number stands (1964 and 1994); Two churchwarden wands (1986); Sacristy room: crucifix (bronze with copper escutcheon) and Holy Water scoop (1998) Outside: Memorial garden bronze plaque (1997); Church notice board; Creation plaque, with four sections
Two-light window with standing figures of St Clare and St Francis, set in a landscape with flowers. Crucifixion above and texts below in separate panels
^Newman in The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan surmises that the reredos was by Roper. The church is closed and the present whereabouts of the reredos is unknown. The presence of a reredos with copper silhouettes of Christ and the twelve Apostles had been noted by Coflein.[65]
^ ab"Frank Roper Centenary"(PDF). Methodist Modern Art Collection Friends' Newsletter. No. 13. UK: The Methodist Church. Spring 2015. p. 13. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
^ abcRosemary Markham (16 September 1994). "A furnace where polystyrene is transmuted into bronze". Church Times.
^ abcdefghijklmnopLeech, Peter (2003). The Religious Art of Frank Roper – An Introduction. Much Wenlock: RJL Smith & Associates, for The Roper Exhibition Group. ISBN1-872665-74-8.
^ abcLawless, Kate (December 2014). "Frank Roper – a window into his work"(PDF). Croeso. UK: Department of Communication of the Llandaff Diocesan Council for Mission and Ministry. p. 9. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ abBob Williams (Spring 2017). "Frank Roper: St Peter's Church, Chippenham"(PDF). Methodist Modern Art Collection Friends' Newsletter. No. 17. UK: The Methodist Church. p. 10. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
Leech, Peter (2003). The Religious Art of Frank Roper – An Introduction. Much Wenlock: RJL Smith & Associates, for The Roper Exhibition Group. ISBN1-872665-74-8.
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