Tag: contemporary sculpture
Abigail Hammond creates unapologetically raw work that confronts the realities of menopause through sculpture, video, sound, and installation. After a 35-year career in costume design for dance and theatre, her practice shifted into something deeply personal, using her own body as both subject and material. Through detailed Jesmonite casts, performative video, and immersive installations, she captures the physical and emotional intensity of menopause without softening or aestheticizing it. Her work challenges silence and stigma, prioritizing truth over comfort, and often sparks powerful conversations in both gallery and public spaces. Rooted in…
Constance McBride creates sculptural figures in clay that move beyond representation to explore what it feels like to exist within a body. Hand-building each piece from stoneware paper clay, she allows every surface to hold marks of pressure, time, and change. Her figures often appear folded, compressed, or suspended in moments of tension, reflecting both strength and vulnerability. Influenced by nature, memory, and lived experience, her work treats the body as a “dwelling place,” capable of holding both safety and confinement. Through cracks, textures, and layered materials, she embraces imperfection as…
Selected for our Faces exhibition, Limor Dekel creates striking sculptural faces using cardboard and repurposed paper, transforming discarded materials into expressive works full of life and movement. Trained in ceramic design at Bezalel Academy, her practice blends craftsmanship with experimentation. What began during the pandemic as a practical solution for teaching evolved into a defining artistic language rooted in freedom and sustainability. Her layered forms carry human energy, gesture, and emotion, often inspired by her background in dance and observation. By elevating humble materials, she challenges how we value both art…
Mahony Maia Kiely creates women’s faces directly in red desert sand, casting them in plaster before the wind erases them. Rooted in decades of working with land, community, and story, her practice moves between sculpture, performance, and ceremony, listening closely to place and transforming fleeting marks in the earth into lasting forms that honour memory, connection, and the voices the land holds.
Selected for our Faces exhibition, Michele Rogers works with repurposed barn wood, scrap metal, and unpredictable materials she refuses to control. Instead of erasing their history, she lets every scratch and dent remain, building sculptures that honor survival, surrender, and the quiet necessity of making.