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Our balloons

Sculptural installation, balloons, soil, thread, steel pins, gold leaf. Working with balloons is a tense and unpredictable process particularly when they are filled with soil (as here). This tension is central to the artwork. 

IMG 3203 1750164861 Rachel Shephard

Dreaming into the future

In Seaweed I

‘Come to the rock pool’

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