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.[1][2]
Work and career edit
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Leventon studied Chinese Language & 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 Post Graduate in Advanced Sculpture at Central St Martins School of Art 1980–81.[3]
A recurring theme running through her artistic practice is that of things that have been lost, hidden, or forgotten.
Leventon was commissioned by Stour Valley Arts to make two large earthworks which are situated in Kings Wood in Stour Valley, Kent, and form part of the Stour Valley Sculpture Trail alongside other artworks. Both pieces were shortlisted for the Rouse Kent Award for Public Art and Ring was the winner.[4] Made in 2004, it is a concave circular piece dug out of the land itself, inspired by Anglo-Saxon barrow fields and prehistoric earthworks found in the local area in Kent.[5] Usually filled with water, it also acts as a water source for deer in the forest.[6] Leventon's second work in Kings Wood made in 2004 is B52, she chose this aircraft because it was the time of the Iraq war and it is such a powerful symbol . Her idea was to subvert the destructive and aggressive power of the aircraft into a living growing piece - it consists of a clearing in the monoculture of coppiced sweet chestnut trees cut into the negative shape of the American bomber .[6] The cleared woodland allows light and biodiversity onto the forest floor.[5]
From 2014 Leventon was commissioned by the Woodland Trust to make a permanent Earthwork for the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods situated in Normanton le Heath, Leicestershire, UK.[7] The form of this artwork responds to local prehistoric archaeology.[8] Taking on the theme of time the work consists of a large corkscrew spiral structure which visitors can interact with by walking along the spiral path into the concave centre, which is surrounded by a ring of Oaks and Wild Service trees and a further ring of bushes selected to be of particular value to birds.[9]
Responding to a commission from the Dorset-based arts organisation b-side in 2018 Leventon produced an installation Endangered Dust for the courtyard of Portland Museum.[10] Part of an ongoing series influenced by vernacular architecture, the form of Endangered Dust was inspired by prehistoric stone chambers cut into the rock in the Isle of Portland known as Beehive Chambers.[11] Leventon's work was constructed from layers of hand cut plywood taking the conical beehive forms as its starting point, lit from the inside.[11]
In 2000 she was commissioned to make a piece for the National Maritime Museum responding to the history of HMS Implacable, a Ship of the Line of which only the salvaged stern and figurehead remained.[12] Her piece Absentee is a ghostly re-creation of the ship made from hundreds of pieces of glass.[12] It is now suspended in the Queens House at the side of the museum beside the Turner painting The Fighting Temeraire. It is now at the Museums storage facility at Kidbrooke pending reorganisation of some of the galleries.
Selected exhibitions edit
UK exhibitions include:
If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain 1960-2023, Saatchi Gallery, London, 15 November 2023 to 22 January 2024[13]
In Harmony, Broomhill Sculpture Gardens, Barnstaple, 10 June 2022 to May 2024 [14]
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Bucks, open until 29 July 2023 [15]
If Not Now, When? Generations of Women Sculptors in Britain, 1960 – 2022, The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, 31 March - 24 September 2023 [16]
Royal Society of Sculptors, Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden, North Yorkshire, 3 May - 8 July 2024 [17]
Royal Academy Summer exhibition
Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, 2020[18][19]
Endangered Dust, Felix & Spear Gallery, London, 2020[20][21][22]
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Orchard Place London and touring - 2022-3, 2019 and 2000
BLANK_, University Centre Leeds, Ripple of Light solo exhibition - 2021
Traces of Traces, Art at Broadgate, London, 2017 [23]
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells cathedral.Composition 2. 2019
Lichfield Festival of Visual Art Exhibition. Lichfield Cathedral. 2019
Endangered Dust 2019( b-side Commission), Portland Museum, Isle of Portland, Dorset, 2018[24]
Atrium Gallery Exchange House, Broadgate Centre, Liverpool St Station London.
2 person show. Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, 2017[25]
Centenary Open Exhibition 2013, The London Group. The Cello Factory, London, 2013[26]
Unfold, Nettie Horn, London, 2009[1]
Prospects and Interiors: Sculptors' Drawings of Inner Space, Henry Moore Institute exhibition, Sculpture Study Galleries, 2008[27] [28]
Undercurrent, Fabrica, Brighton, 2004[29]
Excavating the Present, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, 1991[30]
Wake, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 1988[31]
Forensic Evidence, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1987[32]
International exhibitions include:
Up the Duff, Galleria L’Affiche, Milan and La Fortezza del Girifalco, Cortona, Italy, 2017 (touring show with Leandro Lottici) [33][34]
Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, 2016[35]
Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark 1991
Prague Festival of Contemporary Art. Czech Republic.2011
Convergence Arts Festival, Rhode Island USA.2003
Views (of the Museum), Museo d’Arte Contemporani Barcelona, Spain,1996
Centraline Museum, Lodz Poland.
Awards include edit
2021 Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award.[38]
2020 Felix & Spear Award.[39]
Arts Council award via The Woodland Trust, 2012-2013, for Now & Then, a large earthwork sited at the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods at Normanton le Heath In Leicestershire. [40]
Rouse Kent Award for Public Art.[41]
Elephant Trust.
British Council.
Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture.[42] [43]
Henry Moore Sculpture Trust.
UJADF ( UK / Japan Art Design & Film ) Winner. Installation
References edit
- ^ a b "NETTIE HORN | Unfold". www.nettiehorn.com. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon". Mediamatic. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon | Felix & Spear". felixandspear. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Sculpture Trail". Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Stour Valley Creative Partnership Trail Map" (PDF). www.kentishstour.org.uk. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Inside Artists | Issue 6". Issuu. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "now & then. Art Print". Saatchi Art. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ^ "Now & Then. | Rosie Leventon". Axisweb. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ^ "futuristic artwork transports woodland visitors back in time and forwards again to the present". Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ^ "Endangered Dust". b-side Arts Festival. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Shortlist in Installation Art, Honorable Mention in Installation Art / Endangered Dust". LICC. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ^ a b Administrator, System (20 August 1999). "New Visions of the Sea". Design Week. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "If Not Now, When?". Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "In Harmony". Broomhill Estate. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon, Blowing Hot & Cold, 2020". Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer.
- ^ "If not now when. Generations of Women Sculptors in Britain. The Hepworth Wakefield 1960 – 2022". Royal Society of Sculptors. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "Royal Society of Sculptors, Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden, 3 May - 8 July 2023". Willoughby Gerrish. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "Summer Show 2020 - Exhibition at Royal Society of Sculptors in London". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "News". Julie Brixey-Williams. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon | Felix & Spear". felixandspear. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Endangered Dust e-flyer" (PDF). 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon | endangered dust - Exhibition at Felix and Spear Gallery in London". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Welcome to an Urban Eden for spring | Broadgate". www.broadgate.co.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Endangered Dust". b-side Arts Festival. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Summer Salon 2017 - Angus-Hughes". angus-hughes.org. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Centenary Open Exhibition 2013 – The London Group". Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Prospects and Interiors: Sculptors' Drawings of Inner Space - webarchive.henry-moore.org". Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ Raikes, Sophie. Essays on Sculpture. Henry Moore Institute. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-1-905462-22-3.
- ^ "Undercurrent | Rosie Leventon | Fabrica, Brighton". fabrica. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
- ^ "Excavating the present – Events". Kettle's Yard. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon – Chisenhale Gallery". Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon: Forensic Evidence". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "UP THE DUFF MILAN". miguelmallol.com. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ S.r.l, Next Duepuntozero. "Fortezza del Girifalco Cortona". www.fortezzadelgirifalco.it (in Italian). Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon artist from Bath UK, United Kingdom - Artworks: Sculpture & Installation". artelaguna.world. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Rosie Leventon". Mediamatic. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ Catalogue: Der Pfalzgalerie. Bezirks Verband PFALZ. ISBN 3-89422-030-9.
- ^ "Spotlight Award: Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer". Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ "Felix & Spear: Rosie Leventon". Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Wood". Woodland Trust. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
- ^ Kent, Liz; Drew, Sandra, eds. (2005). King's Wood: A context. Stour Valley Arts. ISBN 095353409X.
- ^ "Standpoint: Rosie Leventon - Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2001-2". Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- ^ Herbert, Martin; Strang, Matilda; Strang, Matilda (2013). Thinking is Making: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Sculpture. London: Black Dog Publishing. ISBN 978-1908966049.