Hound 2/8

About Hound 2/8

This tabletop indoor figurative sculpture of animals is made of resin.

Award-winning sculptor Nicholas Crombach’s detailed and realistic figurative pieces often explore the complex relationship humans have with animals. This cast resin sculpture of a hound who has hunted a fox which then hunted a goose is patinated in indigo, black and white. Growing up on a dairy farm, Crombach observed that dynamic from a young age. His contemporary artwork is contemplative and provocative, cleverly imbued with a wry sense of humour.
This is one of a series Crombach created called ‘End of the Chase,’ a response to the 2014 hunting act passed in Britain designed to end the historic tradition of hunting with hounds. Edition two of eight.

“Our capacity to have a moral obligation is unique to humans and intuitively causes us to anthropomorphize and morally consider the world around us. This characteristic of our nature makes us paradoxically empathize with the animals we sacrifice while sustaining human life and culture.” Nicholas Crombach

Nicholas Crombach was born in Toronto (1989). He is a graduate of OCAD’s Sculpture and Installation program. He has received many grants and awards and was the 2016-17 artist in residence at The Florence Trust in London, UK and in 2022 at the Studios at MASS MoCA in the US. Crombach has completed many public art commissions In Ontario including the sculpture Wind Vane in Woodstock (2023) and Flock on Main Street Plaza in Niagara Falls. (2023). He has exhibited widely in Canada, Spain and England.