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Thornton sculpted in metal having been inspired by the idea of making three-dimensional equivalents of the drawings of
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Geometry of Fear group which redefined the medium in post-war Britain. He considered line rather than mass to be the expression of a more urgent fleetingly emotive quality in the uneasy atmosphere of the immediate post war years.
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