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Sara Radstone
Sara Radstone‘s clay artefacts sometimes stand, but increasingly lean, hang or lie. Austerely abstract, yet
powerfully suggestive, they seem to prompt an appraisal of things that may not be fully known, but of which we are aware.
These elemental objects, as she puts it, act as ‘nudges in the line of vision, obstacles on the floor, shadows
lurking in corners’.
She is intrigued by the enigmatic quality of certain kinds of contained spaces such as those associated with caskets,
coffins and the body. To this extent she acknowledges that her work has long been concerned with a dialogue between
the outer ‘skin’ and the inner hollowness of a form. But whereas the interior spaces were once revealed,
now they are more usually hidden, to imply what she has called ‘the metaphorical enframement of
one‘s internal world’.
Born in 1955, Radstone studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art, London. Her work is included in the collections of
the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan; Los Angeles County Museum, USA; Museum für Kunsthadwerk, Frankfurt;
and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
previous exhibitions
29 June to 31 July 2007
19 November 2004 to 8 January 2005
publications
Please click Publications for a list of illustrated exhibition leaflets and other related literature available from Barrett Marsden Gallery
limited editions
please see newly launched limited editions by Barrett Marsden Gallery artists
email: info@bmgallery.co.uk
link to collections
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Crafts Council Collection, London
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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