Lindsey B: The Legend Continues (Part 2)
Lindsey B is back!!
Now known as Lindsey Blank and with a new range of figures celebrating the form of the human body, we’re delighted to bring this blog to you as a follow up from our first blog on Lindsey B.
Since purchasing old stock items directly from Lindsey we have been lucky enough to have formed a friendship with Lindsey and have met on several occasions since our first meeting.
Lindsey very rarely discusses work and despite being in regular contact over the last couple of years and frequently asking about her new range, we only discovered her new website was up and running when it was casually dropped in conversation.
Sheryls Art Deco are not selling Lindseys new figures on our website. To view and purchase please visit LindseyBlank.co.uk.
When we purchased the last of Lindsey B’s old stock she informed us that she also had a life size figure (right) designed for a perfume promotion that she was willing to part with. With Sheryl being a fan of Lindsey, it didn’t take much convincing to leave with it and we noted that this was different to the style we had previously seen from Lindsey.
At the time we purchased this perfume promotion figure, it was pre-covid and Lindsey hadn’t shown us (or possibly even started) creating any of the new range.
The perfume company requested the hole to the middle to place a perfume bottle. The figure was never used and never went into production so this figure is a one-off, unique object and available on my website at time of writing.
For those of us who have admired her work for some time, the new figures appear to be a big step away from her well known Art Deco themed 80s and 90s Lindsey B range but this new style has been something of an interest to Lindsey for a while and her previous works are not something she dwells on or has much time to look back on.
Lindsey says the name change was to distance slightly from her given name and her Art Deco range, she retained the B and some letters from her surname. It’s nice and easy to spell, also!
Our website statistics shows that Lindsey B items occupy 5 of our top 30 most viewed items. Our first Lindsey B blog is our most popular blog by a significant distance, its three times more popular than any other blog on our site. Her figures from the 70s, 80s & 90s are still very popular.
Available at LindseyBlank.co.uk
In the early years Lindsey worked with a mannequin company and was given an opportunity to use her creativity to make a figure of her own design. This inspired her to create the Lindsey B company which was operational for 3 years. Due to cheap, poor quality copies of her designs hitting the market shortly after their release (many of which can still be found for sale in online marketplaces and auctions), Lindsey found it demoralising and demeaning to her work and it played a major role in her decision to cease trading.
She didn’t want to continue designs with too many Art Deco flavours and hadn’t the time to think about incorporating those aspects into more modern pieces. She has not produced any other pieces with a strong Art Deco flavour as the times, & Lindsey herself, has changed.
Lindsey goes on to say that the change in shopping habits started to affect sales of mannequins and she had time on her hands so began to create stylised figures, neither abstract nor totally realistic which she is now reproducing in moderate quantities. They are already available for purchase and the material is mainly cold cast resin – various metal powders added to the mix to give weight and interesting colour ways. She has teamed with very accomplished mouldmakers to attain a high standard of finish. There is experimentation at the moment with various colour finishes.
Lindsey allowed us to exclusively advertise her recently released cubist clown figure (view here). The original figure was first designed and moulded in 1978 and was one of the first statues she ever made but never released. The clown had been loitering in a corner for many years in a state of disrepair. After some positive remarks she repaired the original, added a base and it is now in production on a limited level. She also confirmed to us that this figure was the very last from her Art Deco style period and nothing further in that style was ever likely to be produced.
asked about her future plans she says she’ll continue experimenting with shapes based on the human figure – either for sculptures or possibly for other decorative pieces.
Watch this space, we’ll keep you posted.
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