The Whisper was commissioned by Sainsbury’s after seeing a maquette of two girls sitting on a railing. On completion the Whisper was shown at the Royal Academy where the Milton Keynes Development Corporation saw it and commissioned it in bronze for a site outside the Milton Keynes library.
Sue O’Brien
[A T.V film was made of the making, casting and siting of the sculpture]
A male river-god and female siren by Andre Wallace are two recently completed works commissioned by Newcastle Development Corporation, sited on the opposite bank to the Baltic Mills.
David Lee – Arts Review
The brief was to create a two-part sculpture for either side of the front entrance to the Learning Centre (Wolverhampton University)
The Boating series could just be about people in boats, but the work has classical references, to the Boatman taking people along the river of life or the Ferryman who transports from this world to the next.
Sue O’Brien
A simple boating incident in Dockland, or a metaphorical statement commenting on the political and economic scene?
Graham Hughes – Arts Review
The 3 dimensional, multi-faceted viewpoints invite the onlooker to move around the work to see every aspect and silhouette and every modulation from highlights to the deepest shadows. There is no prescriptive meaning.
Sue O’Brien
Wallace’s work holds something in common with the work of Aristide Maillol and Frank Dobson. Undoubtedly, Wallace’s large-scale work has a heroism and monumentality, a relaxed classicism that both these sculptors evinced. There is evident in the work of all three a similar poise, confidence, and above all, formal clarity.
Andrew Lambirth