Rosie Leventon

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Rosie Leventon is a British visual artist whose practise spans across Sculpture , Installation, Land art Drawing and painting. She is known for making sculptural installations that concern the natural environment, archaeology and vernacular architecture.[1][2]

Work and career[]

Leventon studied Chinese Language & Archaeology from 1974-75 at London University, before completing her Bachelor degree in Fine Art from Croydon College of Art 1976-79 then a Post Graduate in Advanced Sculpture at Central St Martins School of Art 1980-81.[3]

Portland Wreck
Endangered Dust
'Ring' Artwork in King's Wood - geograph.org.uk - 1543432

"A theme that runs right through my artistic practise is to do with things that have been lost hidden forgotten or destroyed" Rosie Leventon


Leventon was commissioned by Stour Valley Arts to make two large earthworks which are situated in Kings Wood in Stour Valley, Kent, and form part of the Stour Valley Sculpture Trail alongside other artworks. Both pieces were shortlisted for the Rouse Kent Award for Public Art and Ring was the winner.[4] Made in 2004, it is a concave circular piece dug out of the land itself, inspired by Anglo-Saxon barrow fields and prehistoric earthworks found in the local area in Kent.[5] Usually filled with water, it also acts as a water source for deer in the forest.[6] Leventon's second work in Kings Wood made in 2004 is B52, she chose this aircraft because it was the time of the Iraq war and it is such a powerful symbol . Her idea was to subvert the destructive and aggressive power of the aircraft into a living growing piece - it consists of a clearing in the monoculture of coppiced sweet chestnut trees cut into the negative shape of the American bomber .[7] The cleared woodland allows light and biodiversity onto the forest floor..[5]

From 2014 Leventon was commissioned by the Woodland Trust to make an Earthwork for the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods situated in Normanton le Heath, Leicestershire, UK.[8] The form of this artwork responds to local prehistoric archaeology.[9] Taking on the theme of time the work consists of a large corkscrew spiral structure which visitors can interact with by walking along the spiral path into the concave centre, which is surrounded by a ring of Oaks and Wild Service trees and a further ring of bushes selected to be of particular value to birds.[10] In 2000

Responding to a commission from the Dorset based arts organisation b-side in 2018 Leventon produced an installation Endangered Dust for the courtyard of Portland Museum.[11] Part of an ongoing series influenced by vernacular architecture, the form of Endangered Dust was inspired by prehistoric stone chambers cut into the rock in the Isle of Portland known as Beehive Chambers.[12] Leventon's work was constructed from layers of hand cut plywood taking the conical beehive forms as its starting point, lit from the inside.[13]

In 2000 she was commissioned to make a piece for the National Maritime Museum responding to the history of HMS Implacable, a Ship of the Line of which only the salvaged stern and figurehead remained.[14] Her piece Absentee is a ghostly re-creation of the ship made from hundreds of pieces of glass.[15] It is now suspended in the Queens House at the side of the museum beside the Turner painting The Fighting Temeraire.

Selected exhibitions[]

UK exhibitions include:

Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer. Bucks Open till Oct 24. 2021

Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, 2020[16][17]

Endangered Dust, Felix & Spear Gallery, London, 2020[18][19][20]

Trinity Buoy Wharf Prize. Royal Drawing School London and touring. 2019 and 2000

Traces of Traces, Art at Broadgate, London, 2017 [21]

Wells Art Contemporary, Wells cathedral.Composition 2.

Lichfield Festival of Visual Art Exhibition. Lichfield Cathedral.

Endangered Dust ( b-side Commission), Portland Museum, Isle of Portland, Dorset, 2018[22]

Atrium Gallery Exchange House Liverpool Station London.

2 person show. Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, 2017[23]

Centenary Open Exhibition 2013, The London Group. The Cello Factory, London, 2013[24]

Unfold, Nettie Horn, London, 2009[25]

Undercurrent, Fabrica, Brighton, 2004[26]

Excavating the Present, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, 1991[27]

Wake, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 1988[28]

Forensic Evidence, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1987[29]

International exhibitions include:

Up the Duff, Galleria L’Affiche, Milan and La Fortezza del Girifalco, Cortona, Italy, 2017 (touring show with Leandro Lottici) [30][31]

Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, 2016[32]   

Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

Prague Festival of Contemporary Art. Czech Republic. 

Convergence Arts Festival, Rhode Island  USA. 

Views (of the Museum), Museo d’Arte Contemporani Barcelona, Spain,1996

Centraline Museum, Lodz Poland.

Der Pfalzgalerie, KaisersLautern, Germany[33]

Awards include:[]

 

2020 Felix & Spear Award.


2020 Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award.


Arts Council


Rouse Kent Award for Public  Art,


Elephant Trust


British Council ,


Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture,


Henry Moore Sculpture Trust.


UJADF ( UK / Japan Art Design & Film ) Winner. Installation

References[]

  1. ^ "NETTIE HORN | Unfold". www.nettiehorn.com. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  2. ^ "Rosie Leventon". Mediamatic. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  3. ^ "Rosie Leventon | Felix & Spear". felixandspear. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  4. ^ "Sculpture Trail". Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  5. ^ a b "Stour Valley Creative Partnership Trail Map" (PDF). www.kentishstour.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  6. ^ "Inside Artists | Issue 6". Issuu. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  7. ^ "Inside Artists | Issue 6". Issuu. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  8. ^ "now & then. Art Print". Saatchi Art. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  9. ^ "Now & Then. | Rosie Leventon". Axisweb. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  10. ^ "futuristic artwork transports woodland visitors back in time and forwards again to the present". Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  11. ^ "Endangered Dust". b-side Arts Festival. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  12. ^ "Shortlist in Installation Art, Honorable Mention in Installation Art / Endangered Dust". LICC. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  13. ^ "Shortlist in Installation Art, Honorable Mention in Installation Art / Endangered Dust". LICC. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  14. ^ Administrator, System (1999-08-20). "New Visions of the Sea". Design Week. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  15. ^ Administrator, System (1999-08-20). "New Visions of the Sea". Design Week. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  16. ^ "Summer Show 2020 - Exhibition at Royal Society of Sculptors in London". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  17. ^ "News". Julie Brixey-Williams. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  18. ^ "Rosie Leventon | Felix & Spear". felixandspear. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  19. ^ "Endangered Dust e-flyer" (PDF). 2021-04-13.
  20. ^ "Rosie Leventon | endangered dust - Exhibition at Felix and Spear Gallery in London". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  21. ^ "Welcome to an Urban Eden for spring | Broadgate". www.broadgate.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  22. ^ "Endangered Dust". b-side Arts Festival. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  23. ^ "Summer Salon 2017 - Angus-Hughes". angus-hughes.org. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  24. ^ "Centenary Open Exhibition 2013 – The London Group". Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  25. ^ "NETTIE HORN | Unfold". www.nettiehorn.com. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  26. ^ "Undercurrent | Rosie Leventon | Fabrica, Brighton". fabrica. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  27. ^ "Excavating the present – Events". Kettle's Yard. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  28. ^ "Rosie Leventon – Chisenhale Gallery". Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  29. ^ "Rosie Leventon: Forensic Evidence". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
  30. ^ "UP THE DUFF MILAN". miguelmallol.com. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  31. ^ S.r.l, Next Duepuntozero. "Fortezza del Girifalco Cortona". www.fortezzadelgirifalco.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  32. ^ "Rosie Leventon artist from Bath UK, United Kingdom - Artworks: Sculpture & Installation". artelaguna.world. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  33. ^ "Rosie Leventon". Mediamatic. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
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