Sacrum (i) comprises a hand-beaten aluminium curved sheet pierced delicately on the end of a curving rusted steel stem which has a gentle buoyancy in the wind. There is a lightness of structural gesture and balance, that belies the repetitive hand-beating process that creates the exterior blossom-like patina.

Halliwell Sutton’s work takes the form of sculpture, photography, writing and curating, making use of the transformative properties of materials. Grounded in a feminist critique of land ownership, bodies and desires, a constant thread in her work is an intergenerational connection through time, bodies and place.

Extending 3m horizontally from a screwed steel ground-plate this work hovers low to the ground and catches the light in its delicately textured surface.

Rebecca K. Halliwell-Sutton (b.1991, Bolton) graduated from Manchester School of Art, Fine Art (2016), and was the 2016 recipient of the Woon Fellowship, with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art & Northumbria University, Newcastle. Rebecca was a member of School of The Damned, an alternative self-organised MA (2018) and received an arts council grant to curate the Beacons programme (2018) at Caustic Coastal, Salford. Solo exhibitions include: Recent Activity, Birmingham (2023); Floating on the surface of knowledge, duo show with Mollie Milton, Islington Mill, Salford (2018); Field Studies of Touch, Gallery North, Newcastle (2017); Relics of what could be, what could have been, Slugtown, Newcastle (2017); Texts from the universe, STCFTHOTS, Leeds (2017). Recent group shows include: Blyth Gallery, Imperial College London (2023); Alone Time, Union Pacific, London (2023); Babele curated by Caspar Giorgio Williams, Spazio Musa, Turin (2023); Ancient Vessels, A.P.T Gallery, London (2022) and Photocopier II, Recent Activity, Birmingham (2022).

Rebecca K. Halliwell-Sutton (b.1991, Bolton) graduated from Manchester School of Art, Fine Art (2016), and was the 2016 recipient of the Woon Fellowship, with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art & Northumbria University, Newcastle. Rebecca was a member of School of The Damned, an alternative self-organised MA (2018) and received an arts council grant to curate the Beacons programme (2018) at Caustic Coastal, Salford. Solo exhibitions include: Recent Activity, Birmingham (2023); Floating on the surface of knowledge, duo show with Mollie Milton, Islington Mill, Salford (2018); Field Studies of Touch, Gallery North, Newcastle (2017); Relics of what could be, what could have been, Slugtown, Newcastle (2017); Texts from the universe, STCFTHOTS, Leeds (2017). Recent group shows include: Blyth Gallery, Imperial College London (2023); Alone Time, Union Pacific, London (2023); Babele curated by Caspar Giorgio Williams, Spazio Musa, Turin (2023); Ancient Vessels, A.P.T Gallery, London (2022) and Photocopier II, Recent Activity, Birmingham (2022).