Artist statement
Rosie Leventon makes sculptural installations and drawings some of which are permanent and some ephemeral. Many of the pieces are architectural and relate to or use their surroundings in some way, they often contain paradoxes and surprises. Some work involves looking through and behind the surfaces of modern day living to find something lost or forgotten beneath. . People can often interact with the work, they can explore it by walking around and through it, or they can enter it and use it as a performance area, for contemplation or as seating Recently she has 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 Poland, Russia, Denmark, Germany, USA, Japan, Spain and France. Her work can currently be seen in , the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich London, in the Queens House, at Kingswood, Challock Forest in Kent, and at Clifton Country Park near Manchester as part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. Also in the following books:
- FABRICA - The First ten years, (ISBNO 9543380-2-2) Mathew Miller & Liz Whitehead. Kings 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)
Qualifications and training
- 1980 Post-Graduate, St Martins, London
- 1979 BA Hons, Croydon College of Art, Croydon
- 1975 Chinese Language and Archaeology, London University
Solo exhibitions
- 2007 The Front Room, Salt gallery, Hayle, Nr St Ives, Cornwall (more info)
- 2007 Drawings, eyestorm, 11 Sumner St. (Opp. Tate Modern) Bankside, London
- 2004 Fabrica, Brighton
- 2002 Standpoint Gallery, London
- 2002 Waterstone's Bookshop, Piccadilly, London
- 2001 Atrium Gallery, Price Waterhouse Coopers, London
- 2001 Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton
- 1999 Blackthorpe Barn, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
- 1997 Dean Clough Contemporary Art Galleries, Halifax
- 1997 A Long Way From The Bathroom, Lokaal 01, Breda. Holland
- 1996 A Long Way From The Bathroom, Cafe Gallery, London
- 1996 A Long Way From The Bathroom, Bonington Gallery, Noittingham
- 1994 New Installations, Passerelle, Brest, France
- 1993 Clove 1 Gallery, Butlers Wharf, London
- 1993 London Ecology Centre, Covent Garden
- 1991 Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark
- 1990 Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Art Centre
- 1989 Woodlands Gallery, Greenwich
- 1988 Chisenhale Gallery, London
- 1988 Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
- 1988 Wolverhampton Art Gallery
- 1987 Serpentine Gallery, London
Group exhibitions
- 2009 Workshop of Hereafter., Blyth Gallery, Imperial College,, South kensington, London.
- 2009 Workshop of Hereafter., Blyth Gallery, Imperial College,, South kensington, London.
- 2009 Cork Street Open Exhibition., The Gallery in Cork Street., 28 Cork Street. London W!S 3NG
- 2009 UNFOLD, NETTIE HORN GALLERY, 25b Vyner st. Bethnal Green. London E2 9DG
- 2008 ET PENDANT CE TEMPS, Nettie Horn gallery, 25b Vyner St. Bethnal green. london . E2 9DG
- 2008 CONSIDERED MATTER, Mid Pennine Gallery,, Yorke St, Burnley, BB11 1HD
- 2008 'Prospects & Interiors', RECENT ACQUISITIONS OF SCULPTORS DRAWINGS, Henry Moore Institute,, 74 The headrow, Leeds LS1 3AH
- 2008 PARALLAX, Fieldgate Gallery., 14 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel. London E1 1ES
- 2007 The London Group, Menier Chocolate Factory, 51 Southwark St. London.
- 2006 Landscape and memory, The Ropewalk, Barton on Humber
- 2004 Haunt, Sherborne House, Dorset
- 2003 Convergence International Arts Festival, USA
- 2003 Open Sculpture, RWA, Bristol
- 2003 MODA Outsize, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Barnet
- 2001 Sculpture Exhibition, Millfield, Somerset
- 2000 Royal Society of British Sculptors Summer Exhibition, London
- 1999 Women in Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, Connecticut, USA
- 1999 Notes form Underground, Dostoyevsky Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1998 New Visions of the Sea, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
- 1997 Artist in Residence, Irwell Sculpture Trail, Manchester
- 1997 You Are Here, Re-siting Installations, Royal College of Art, London
- 1996 Mirades, (Sobre el Museu),, MACBA museo d'Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona.
- 1994 Ikon Gallery, Touring Programme, Midlands
- 1992 East And South, Norwich Gallery
- 1992 Frankfurt Art Fair
- 1991 Leeds Polytechnic Gallery
- 1990 4 Sculptors, Pfalz galerie, Kaisers Kautern, West Germany
Curated projects
- 2008 CONCRETE AND GLASS, Shoreditch Town Hall., 380 Old St. London EC1V 9LT
Public commissions
- 2004 Two sculptures for a forest, Stour Valley Arts, Kingswood, Challock Forest, Kent UK
- 2000 Absentee, National Maritime Museum., The Queens House, Greenwich .London
- 1998 DIG, Irwell Sculpture Trail, Clifton Country Park, Salford, Nr Manchester.
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2003 Winner of Art Competition., EWACC, Online
- 2002 Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
- 2001 Travelling Award, British Council, USA
- 1997 Award, Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Royal College of Art.
- 1985 Major Award., Portland Clifftop Sculpture park., Isle of Portland, Dorset.
Educational experience - tertiary
- 1995 Teaching Experience, Nottingham University, Birmingham Polytechnic, Serpentine Gallery Summer School, School, Byam Shaw School of Art, Maidstone School of Art, Stourbridge College
Publications
- 2007 FABRICA - The first ten years ISBNO-9543380-2-2
- 2005 King's Wood: A CONTEXT Stour Valley Arts ISBN 0 9535 3409 x By Liz Kent & Sandra Drew.
- 2005 Meditative Spaces. By Michael Freeman. Universe Publishing Rizzoli int. Pcns. Inc
- 1994 Installation Art by Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicky Oxley and Michael Petry, published by Thames & Hudson
Other
- 2009 Stour Valley Arts, ITV Meridian TV News, ITV Meridian
- 2009 London Art Fair., Business design centre. Islington., London
- 2009 London Art Fair., Business design centre. Islington., London
- 2007 5 drawings bought by the, Henry Moore Institute,, Leeds. (more info)
- 2006 Review, Sculpture Magazine, USA
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