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Rosie Leventon

London
Installations / Sculpture / Environmental art / Painting and Drawing.
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Rosie Leventon makes Sculptural installations, Interventions , Public Art Commissions , Environmental Artwork, paintings and drawings some of which are permanent and some ephemeral. Green issues run through the work. Many of the pieces are architectural and relate to or use their surroundings in some way,  often containing paradoxes and surprises. Archaeology has often been the starting point for work. A recurrent theme is to do with things that have been lost hidden or forgotten.

2023 - 4 she showed work in Women in Sculpture 1960 - 2023 at the Hepworth Wakefield and then at the Saatchi Gallery London.

In  2022 she had work in 3 Sculpture Parks : In Harmony,, an exhibition of outdoor sculpture  at Broomhill Estate , Devon. Free Open: everyday  10 - 5. till 30 .9.22.

Collaborations: Contemporary Sculpture : 6.8.22 – 24.9.22  Goodnestone Park Gardens, Goodnestone, Kent. CT3 1PL, ( Canterbury 7 miles.)

Open everyday 11 – 5.  Phone: +4 1304 840107  4

Blowing hot & Cold. made 2021 with the Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award is visible at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer. Near Gerrards Cross.

   Hours:  11 – 4 pm  Thurs – Sun.  CSF. Fulmer Common Road. SL3 6HG  Near Gerrards Cross ,Bucks.

Appointments email :  george@brookebenington.com

 2024. A drawing has been selected for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize / Working drawings Award.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize / Working Drawings Award, Sept. 29.2022 -  Feb 2023. . The Chainstore, Trinity Buoy Wharf,  64 Orchard Place London E14 0JW.   LAUNCH: Wed 28.9.22 6.30 – 9.30 pm Then On Tour till early 23.

Ripple of Light, new work by Rosie Leventon  at BLANK_ Gallery, University Centre Leeds,  Quarry Hill Campus, Playhouse Square, LS2 7BS.Open Mon - Fri 10 - 4 .Till 14 Jan 2022

      www.Instagram.com/blank_leeds/

Recently she  made new small versions of the series Up the Duff  casting them in bronze and aluminium.  In 2020 She won 2 Awards: the Felix & Spear Prize and the Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award. The second one is a new outdoor sculpture  for Sculpture at Fulmer. https://www.contemporarysculpturefulmer.com/appointments/ at Fulmer, in Bucks. The exhibition runs till Oct 24th 2021 Open Thurs - Suns  by apt.

She  was  commissioned by b - side Festival  to make a piece which was shown in the museum on the Isle of Portland Dorset 2018 .  She has had a work selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place  London E14 0JY.  24 Sept - 4 Oct 2018  and touring nationally till 2019.   She also had a drawing in the The Sculpture Collections show at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery , Leeds  22 March - 20 May 18.  

In 2017, she had 4 shows  in  London and  Italy. The first  a one person show at Art at Broadgate in the Ground Floor atrium of Exchange House. London.

 Recently she  made new small versons of the series Up the Duff  casting them in bronze and aluminium. 

 Modern,   one person show at  Atrium Gallery ,Art at Broadgate   was called    The Sheltering Five, Feb 21 - April 18. &  Traces of Traces at the same venue.  And in Italy   with Leandro Lottici at Galleria L'Affiche,  Milan. May 4 - June 1.  in  Cortona  at La Fortezza del Girifalco, in Tuscany  June 10 -  onwards. The series of 5 sculptures are now on permanent display in the castle  .

She has made false floors and corridors that float on water underfoot. Some work involves looking through and behind the surfaces of modern day living to find something lost  hidden or forgotten beneath . Work is often interactive, people can explore it by going inside or use it as a performance area, for contemplation or as seating. Three years ago she  completed a permanent Environmental artwork for the Woodland Trust  from 2012 - ,  for their flagship  Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods In  Leics. In 2015 she  showed  5 sculptures called Up the Duff in a 2 person show at Angus Hughes Gallery London and in Venice at the Ansenale  in the  Arte Laguna Prize .

She  sold 5 drawings to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and won the Rouse Kent Award for Public Art for two commissions for a forest in Kent, and before that the Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture. Much of the work embodies green principles and environmental awareness. Materials are recycled, labour is locally sourced, and several pieces provide water for animals and birds. Some also encourage biodiversity and regeneration.

She undertakes site-related commissions for museums, galleries, businesses, atria, parks, forests, gardens, factories and barns. She works internationally including the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Germany, USA, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and France.   She took part in TINA B Festival of Contemporary Art , Zizkov, Prague, Czech Republic ( Nov 2011 - Jan 2012), and a piece can be seen at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich London, (Room 4B ground floor, the Queens House. Check for occasional closures at: www.rmg.co.uk - (Latest visitor Info.). Also 2 pieces at King's Wood, Challock Forest in Kent, and at Clifton Country Park near Manchester as part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail.

 Books: Destination Art, by Amy Dempsey. ( Thames & Hudson ) 2021. The State of Art .  Installation & Site Specific #2  bare hill publishing. ( ISBN 978-1-909825-15-4). " Thinking is making, Presence & Absence in Contemporary Sculpture ", Published by Black Dog . Matilda Strang, Martin Herbert, Fiona MacDonald. ( ISBN 978 1 908966 04 9) Available from : www.standpointgallery.co.uk . FABRICA - The First ten years, (ISBNO 9543380-2-2) Mathew Miller & Liz Whitehead. King's Wood: A Context Eds. Sandra Drew and Liz Kent. Stour Valley Arts. (ISBN 0-9535 3409 x).  Meditative Spaces by Michael Freeman. Universe Publishing. Rizzoli International. NY . Installation Art by Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley and Michael Petry. Thames & Hudson. (ISBN 0-500 -23672-0) Sculpture Parks & Trails of England by Alison Stace. A & C Black.( ISBN 978-0-7136-7952-6)

 

Forests of the mind.

Astropod.

Blowing hot & cold.

High Firings.

Ripple of Light

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