
Welder Brad Lucas and Guy Portelli in the workshop. © James Gilham
or...
Why the only real men are SCULPTORS! Grrrr!

Guy and the "Taboo" pillar.
You can view the shots in a web gallery here if you prefer.
Below are photographs taken the day before, and at the first of several private views for Guy Portelli's Heart Throb Pop Icons exhibition, which was invested in by entrepreneur Theo Paphitis, investor James Caan and entrepreneur Peter Jones (non-sculptor Alpha males, a rare breed) from BBC TV's Dragons Den.
I was exhibiting three portraits of singer Sade I took in the early eighties when I was a freelance photo-journalist for the music press and knew Sade before she was famous.
With thanks to Sheffield Hallam University Photography Department for their invaluable help and advice vis a vis my Sade pictures. With thanks to Guy Portelli and his friends and family for welcoming me and making my time at the private views such fun. In the shots below I've tried to capture the warm ambience of an event attended by so many genuine people...
All photos © Jude Calvert-Toulmin.

Me in front of "Hey Joe"

Guy hanging "Sade and the Tiger" and "Sade and the Audience"

"The Investment" by Jude Calvert-Toulmin.
L to R: A PA's hand, Theo Paphitis, Guy Portelli, Peter Jones, James Caan and the Portelli piece "Night and Day"

The lovely Pili Portelli with "Taboo"

An O' Neill of The Beatles, a Portelli bronze of Sade, and a Calvert-Toulmin of Sade.
Got a certain ring to it, that sentence.

Me in front of my shots "Sade and the Tiger" and "Sade and the Audience"

Photographer James Miller and the charming and erudite sculptor Tolleck Winner

BBC producer Rob Darlington

Guy, listen to what the lady reporter is saying instead of looking at the camera!
Left, BBC producer Rob Darlington.

Theo Paphitis being photographed by exhibitor James Miller

Victoria Hansen of Bushwood Books, Guy's partner and exhibition organiser. With Guy's son-in-law and welder Brad Lucas.

Crowd shot. Guy's close friend and gallery owner Drew Wilson in foreground.

The lads in the kitchen with the ladies' chocolate-dipped strawberries.

Don't try and blag your way past these ladies!

Guy with newly appointed president of the RBS (Royal Society of British Sculptors), sculptor Johannes von Stumm.

Writer and ex-member of legendary 80s band ABC, Fiona Russell-Powell with a Deborah Feingold shot of The Material Girl herself. (Note, you can read many of Fiona's interviews for The Face with icons such as Warhol, Jagger, Berkoff and the biggest icon of them all, Oliver Reed, at the link on her name.)

Fiona Russell Powell, Sheffield Anna and Guy Portelli. Fiona is saying something unprintable about some unprintable pictures she once saw in Max Clifford's office.





























































