Rosie Grace Ward
Machine Breaking, 2021
Resin and steel
72 x 150cm x 10 cm
28 1/2 x 59 x 4 in.
28 1/2 x 59 x 4 in.
Unique
Photo: Rob Harris. Courtesy of the artist and Brooke Benington
Further images
Recalling nineteen century ironwork or garden furniture this work by Ward draws you into a delicate tangle of imagery. This silver frieze appears like a fragment of an unexplained Gothic...
Recalling nineteen century ironwork or garden furniture this work by Ward draws you into a delicate tangle of imagery. This silver frieze appears like a fragment of an unexplained Gothic fairytale, where headless women are held captive in sinuous tendrils, or perhaps are themselves transmuting into the very nature of the setting.
A multi-disciplinary artist, jeweller and writer, the artist works with a developing language of symbolic objects and imagery using the base materiality of mud, metal, plants and wood. Largely taking the form of installations, she creates contexts and scenes that attempt to leverage collective longing for a future to be a part of, against historical impulses towards cyclicality and increasing obsolescence.
This unique work was first carved in clay to create a mould and then cast in resin, embedded with steel.
Exhibitions
6th Edition (2022) at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Fulmer, United Kingdom
5th Edition (2021) at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Fulmer, United Kingdom
