"Her installations and individual sculptures combine a wealth of things and techniques, often all at once, from found objects to time-honoured sculptural materials like bronze and marble; and from carving to casting and crocheting. Colour plays a vital role in her work, in the varied hues of textiles or plaster."
"Through arresting and often multilayered arrangements, she evokes the minutiae of everyday experience (often with a profoundly personal meaning), makes reference to resonant historical events and their legacies, and addresses major human themes and rites of passage."
"She explores personal, collective and historical memory through a range of sculptural materials and processes. She creates forms as diverse as seeds and fruits, mats and nets, pillows and blankets and architectural structures."
Veronica Ryan, born in 1956 in Montserrat and raised in the UK, creates sculptural work that investigates personal, collective, and historical memory. Her practice encompasses diverse materials and techniques including found objects, bronze, marble, textiles, and crocheting. She employs varied forms such as seeds, fruits, mats, nets, pillows, blankets, and architectural structures, with color playing a vital role through textiles and plaster. Her multilayered arrangements reference everyday experience with personal significance, historical events and their legacies, and major human themes. Her artistic influences include her mother's textiles, the British Museum, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Maya Angelou's poetry, chamber music, and reggae.
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