ARTIST STATEMENT
Rosie Leventon makes sculptural installations, for both in and out of doors, using a broad variety of materials from human hair to recycled central heating pipes. She also draws and paints to create proposals for sculpture and installations. Some of her installations comprise radical interventions into the interior of a building. She has constructed false floors that float on water and which shift under foot. Her outdoor installations sometimes highly ambitious in scale often have a regional element providing water for animals, for example, or providing biodiversity and regeneration . All of Leventons work is grounded in a sensitive concern for the natural environment and how we use it. She sees her work as ‘interweaving a kind of personal archeology with the archeology of contemporary society and the physical archeology of places. Rosies drawings combine expressive energy with a sculptors instinct for ground and depth. Surfaces are tactile often evoking organic sculptural materials, or referencing the elemental aspects of landscape.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rosie Leventon is a British visual artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, installation, land art, drawing and painting. She is known for making sculptural installations that reference current issues as well as the natural environment, prehistoric archaeology and vernacular architecture. Leventon studied Chinese Language and Archaeology from 1974 to 1975 at London University, before completing her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Croydon College of Art (1976–1979), followed by a postgraduate degree in Advanced Sculpture at Central St Martins School of Art 1980–81. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Leventon
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