Environment Triptych
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The Environment Triptych, by sculptor Jon Edgar, is a group of three portrait heads of environmental thinkers of the day. First assembled in 2008,{{cite web|url=http://jonedgar.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/2008-environment-triptych-mabey-midgley-lovelock.jpg |title=Info |website=jonedgar.files.wordpress.com |format=JPG}} it is composed of the terracotta heads of James Lovelock, proposer of the Gaia hypothesis, moral philosopher Mary Midgley, and writer Richard Mabey. Edgar worked with the three in either Cornwall, Newcastle upon Tyne or Norfolk during visits in 2006 and 2007.
The heads have a relevance as individual portraits, but the interplay of the three heads plinthed together seemed to add something; perhaps emphasising the sitters’ diverse efforts in influencing human behaviour and our interaction with the planet and its other organisms.{{cite web |last= |date=17 May 2011 |title=The Environment Series Heads |url=https://jonedgar.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/the-environment-series-heads/ |website=Jon Edgar Critical Mass |publisher=}} The Triptych has led to the Environment Series of heads of environmentally aware sitters,article on the Human Clay exhibition, Surrey Advertiser. 2 Dec 2011 p.11{{Cite web |url=http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts/exhibitions%20and%20events/the_human_clay_jon_edgar.htm |title=THE HUMAN CLAY - University of Surrey - Guildford |access-date=2012-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210082125/http://surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts/exhibitions%20and%20events/the_human_clay_jon_edgar.htm |archive-date=2011-12-10 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts/exhibitions%20and%20events/The%20Human%20Clay%20Exhibition.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120141/http://surrey.ac.uk/arts/visualarts/exhibitions%20and%20events/The%20Human%20Clay%20Exhibition.pdf |archive-date=2013-01-26 |url-status=dead }} including Chris Rapley, Gordon Murray, Tim Smit, and Guy Watson.