Amy Stephens
dal 31/10/2012 al 30/11/2012
Segnalato da
31/10/2012
Amy Stephens
Poppy Sebire, London
Collide. The exhibition features a new series of minimalist sculptural configurations that play with colour, surface and form.
For her first exhibition with Poppy Sebire Amy Stephens presents a new series of minimalist sculptural configurations
that play with colour, surface and form.
Forms moving through space have an inherent relationship to drawing and this is how Stephens understands sculpture
- as having a fundamentally spatial conception. Tall assemblages transform the gallery and engage directly with the
architecture – their dimensions are in part determined with the gallery drawings to hand. The scale and height of
Stephens’ configurations feels all the more tense for their self-supporting structures that teeter on the edge of
collapse.
A very striking element in Stephens work lies in the materials and methods of production; her bold and confident
aesthetic makes subtle reference to process. Angled lines of flocked wood, both sculptural and structural, produce an
arresting visual impression as they cut through space. Great sheets of machined Perspex are propped up by neatly
sawn rectangular columns of knotted oak; setting up a tension and tactility around the collision of man-made with
natural materials.
Amy Stephens was born in London in 1981. She holds an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design. Recent solo
exhibitions include ‘Restless Nature’, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2011); ‘This Urban Silence’, Irish Museum
of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2011); ‘The Rise of the Wapiti’, Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (2010);
Recent group exhibitions include ‘Dividing Line’, High House with Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London (2012); ‘Piece of
Paper’, Madder139, London (2011); ‘Line’, Poppy Sebire, London (2011); ‘No Soul For Sale - A Festival of
Independents’, Tate Modern, London (2010); ‘Meet Pamela’, John Jones Project Space, London (2009); ‘195 Miles’,
Project Space Leeds in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2008). In 2011 she completed a four-
month Artists’ Residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and in 2010 she was an artist in residence at the
Banff Centre, Canada. She has work in several public and private collections, including the Zabludowicz Collection. The
artist lives and works in London.
Image: The Spectator, 2012, Perspex, wood, paint, material, 170 x 70 x 140cm
Private view: Thursday 1 November, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Poppy Sebire
All Hallows Hall, 6 Copperfield Street, London, SE1 0EP
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10am- 6pm or by appointment