Rory Te' Tigo is a sculptor, artist and musical instrument maker[1] originally from Germany now living in West Cornwall, United Kingdom. He sculpts in granite and wood and is also a potter. His granite sculptures have been exhibited in various locations in the West Cornwall area,[2] including for many years along the roadside of the A30 trunk road just outside Land's End, Cornwall.[3] His work is executed in a Neo Archaic style, representing themes of Cornish Celtic culture and identity.
Early life and education
Te' Tigo completed a BA in fine art at Hannover Germany's Fachhochschule fuer Kunst + Design, where he invented his spherical mace stone carving hammer.
Career
Te' Tigo taught pottery and soapstone carving at Volkshochschule Hannover (peoples highschool/open university) and Volkshochschule Sulingen in the early 1990s and gave talks at Hannover / Lower-Saxony State Museum together with Dr. Stephan Veil about replicating and playing stone age drums. He replicated several drums of the globular amphore culture that are now with Hannover / Lower-Saxony State Museum.
After moving to Cornwall, Te' Tigo began to sculpt in local granite/moorstone, using Celtic and archetypal themes.
Te'Tigo contributed to Meyn Mamvro a Cornish earth mysterie's magazine since 1989.[4]
Five of his sculptures, called "The Cornish Uprights" were installed by the A30 between Sennen and Land's End.[5] However, these were later moved to a private garden in Sennen[6][7] to avoid the expense of liability insurance.[8][9][10] After solving the insurance problem Rory Te' Tigo had two further sculptures called "The Surfers" by the side of the A 30 trunk road at the entrance to Sennen, the first and last village in Cornwall, U.K.[11] These have now been removed.
He donated a granite sculpture to the former Cornish Tin Mining town of St Just-in-Penwith, depicting the Men an tol, a local archeological landmark. This is now displayed outside the Library in the town center of St. Just-in-Penwith.[12]
During the summer holidays he holds courses in stone carving at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen and leads Well-Walks in the St. Just-in-Penwith area.
He attends meetings of the Penwith Pagan Moot. Rory was a member of the steering committee of C.A.S.P.N. the Cornish Ancient Site Protection Network that aims to protect and preserve ancient sites in Cornwall.[13]
Rory Te' Tigo published his first novella titled "Animals" as an e-book in the summer of 2017.
