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The Sculptures
of Allison Grayhurst
Allison Grayhurst
Edge Unlimited Publishing
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The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst
Copyright © 2018 by Allison Grayhurst
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Cover Art: Picture of a Stone © by Allison Grayhurst
© 2013 by Allison Grayhurst
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Grayhurst, Allison, 1966-
The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst
“Edge Unlimited Publishing”
Sculptures.
ISBN-13: 978-1983534270
ISBN-10: 1983534277
The Sculptures of Allison Grayhurst
by Allison Grayhurst
Title ID: 7963447
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Table of Contents
Ming 6
Beeper 8
Gentle Flo 11
Worker 13
The Vision 19
Conviction 23
Horse’s Head 25
Pregnant Woman 27
Man’s Torso 29
Dolphin 31
Faith 33
Girl 35
Above the Waters 40
Unfinished 47
Receiving 52
Man with a Moustache 58
Sage 60
Sparrow Sand-bathing 62
Panda-bear 64
Squirrel 67
Baby Elephant 70
The Obsessed 73
Moment Before Re-birth 78
Commitment 80
Possibilities 83
Remembering 86
The Devoted 89
Draw Near 94
Wolfe 98
Yeats 101
The Rock 104
Looking 107
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Grief 110
In Mourning 113
The Monk 116
Longing 118
Found 122
Visionary 125
Prayer 128
Watching a Hanging 131
Finding Peace in Ecstasy 134
Vocation 137
Absolution 140
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Ming
7
Image 1
8
Beeper
9
Image 1
10
Image 2
11
Gentle Flo
12
Image 1
13
Worker
14
Image 1
15
Image 2
16
Image 3
17
Image 4
18
Image 5
19
The Vision
20
Image 1
21
Image 2
22
Image 3
23
Conviction
24
Image 1
25
Horse’s
Head
26
Image 1
27
Pregnant
Woman
28
Image 1
29
Man’s
Torso
30
Image 1
31
Dolphin
32
Image 1
Image 2
33
Faith
34
Image 1
Photograph by Ava Harness
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Girl
36
Image 1
37
Image 2
38
Image 3
39
Image 4
40
Above the
Waters
41
Image 1
42
Image 2
43
Image 3
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Image 4
45
Image 5
46
Image 6
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Unfinished
48
Image 1
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Image 2
50
Image 3
51
Image 4
52
Receiving
53
Image 1
Photograph by Ava Harness
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Image 2
55
Image 3
56
Image 4
57
Image 5
58
Man
with a
Moustache
59
Image 1
60
Sage
61
Image 1
62
Sparrow
Sand-
bathing
63
Image 1
64
Panda-
bear
65
Image 1
66
Image 2
67
Squirrel
68
Image 1
Image 2
69
Image 3
70
Baby
Elephant
71
Image 1
72
Image 2
73
The
Obsessed
74
Image 1
75
Image 2
76
Image 3
77
Image 4
78
Moment
Before
Re-birth
79
Image 1
80
Commitment
81
Image 1
82
Image 2
83
Possibilities
84
Image 1
85
Image 2
86
Remembering
87
Image 1
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Image 2
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The
Devoted
90
Image 1
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Image 2
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Image 3
93
Image 4
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Draw Near
95
Image 1
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Image 2
97
Image 3
98
Wolfe
99
Image 1
100
Image 2
101
Yeats
102
Image 1
103
Image 2
104
The Rock
105
Image 1
106
Image 2
107
Looking
108
Image 1
109
Image 2
110
Grief
111
Image 1
112
Image 2
113
In
Mourning
114
Image 1
115
Image 2
116
The Monk
117
Image 1
118
Longing
119
Image 1
120
Image 2
121
Image 3
122
Found
123
Image 1
124
Image 2
125
Visionary
126
Image 1
127
Image 2
128
Prayer
129
Image 1
130
Image 2
Photograph by Andrew Stawicki
131
Watching
a Hanging
132
Image 1
133
Image 2
134
Finding
Peace in
Ecstasy
135
Image 1
136
Image 2
137
Vocation
138
Image 1
139
Image 2
140
Absolution
141
Image 1
Image 2
142
Image 3
143
Image 4
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All sculptures are © by Allison Grayhurst
All photographic images of the sculptures are © by Allison
Grayhurst, with the exception of:
Faith, Image 1: photograph and © by Ava Harness
Receiving, Image 1: photograph and © by Ava Harness
Prayer, Image 2: photograph by Andrew Stawicki
Some of these images have been published in: Spillwords
Press; Section 8 Magazine; Duane’s PoeTree; Strong
Illumination Arts; Elephant Journal; Sonder Magazine
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About Allison Grayhurst
Allison Grayhurst is a poet. She is a member of the League
of Canadian Poets. Three of her poems were nominated for
“Best of the Net” in 2015, and one eight-part story-poem was
nominated for “Best of the Net” in 2017. She has over 1,125
poems published in more than 450 international journals
and anthologies. Her book Somewhere Falling was published
by Beach Holme Publishers, a Porcepic Book, in Vancouver
in 1995. Since then she has published fifteen other books of
poetry and six collections with Edge Unlimited Publishing.
Prior to the publication of Somewhere Falling she had a
poetry book published, Common Dream, and four
chapbooks published by The Plowman. Her poetry
chapbook The River is Blind was published by Ottawa
publisher above/ground press December 2012. In 2014 her
chapbook Surrogate Dharma was published by Kind of a
Hurricane Press, Barometric Pressures Author Series. In
2015, her book No Raft – No Ocean was published by Scars
Publications. More recently, her book Make the Wind was
published in 2016 by Scars Publications.
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As well, her book Trial and Witness – selected poems, was
published in 2016 by Creative Talents Unleashed (CTU
Publishing Group).
Collaborating with Allison Grayhurst on the lyrics,
Vancouver-based singer/songwriter/musician Diane
Barbarash has transformed eight of Allison Grayhurst’s
poems into songs, creating a full album. “River – Songs from
the poetry of Allison Grayhurst” released October 2017.
Allison Grayhurst first studied sculpture with Elizabeth
Fraser Williamson, an award-winning renowned Canadian
sculptor and sculpting teacher who passed away in 2000.
Grayhurst has been sculpting for 29 years, working with clay
and casting in concrete.
Allison Grayhurst is a vegan for the animals. She lives in
Toronto with her family; www.allisongrayhurst.com
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Contact the author:
www.allisongrayhurst.com
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“Beautiful, soulful expressions of human and animal spirits –
made by Allison Grayhurst’s hand – the heartfelt poetry of her
soul showing up in the physical “flesh” of sculpture – the
feeling and power of these beings are translated through her
finger tips,” Taylor Jane Green, BA, RIHR, CHT, Registered
Spiritual Psychotherapist and author of Swan Wheeler: A
North American Mythology and The Rise of Eros.
“Beautiful and interesting sculptures,” Antonio Occulto,
painter and sculptor.
“I can see your passion for your work in these. Very expressive
faces,” James Brandon O'Shea, photographer.
“This is an incredible collection of Art,” Bruce Ruston, poet,
photographer, founding editor of The Poetry Jar.
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