A feature of Jonathan Thomson’s forthcoming Sculpture Exhibition at Karin Weber Gallery Hong Kong, the artist’s third solo show with the gallery, is a striking 2.3 metres tall “Mother and Child” cast in aluminium.

The Mother and Child is one of the great themes in art. It touches on sex, fertility and maternity; childhood, innocence, care, protection and growth; intimacy, warmth, tenderness and love; and on all of the concerns that a parent has for the life of a child. In this work the figures are walking hand in hand, the woman stooped slightly to better assist the child to make her own way in the world, supported and protected but independent and self-assured.

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