Rebecca Glover

Artist statement

Making work is a means of understanding the ideas that captivate my thoughts.

Through experimentation, play and study these ideas begin to find a form and make sense.
I enjoy tracing a line of thought through different mediums, interested to see how the expression of it takes shape in both two and three dimensional form.
Each medium has something special about it. With drawing I can dream onto the page, jotting down and exploring ideas, studying the forms of something and trying to understand it. I like how the marks seek out that understanding, trying to work out the connection between a physical form in the world, and my relationship to it. With both drawing and painting you can create things that could never exist in real life, defying scale, gravity and formal relationships. Making sculpture is different; I love how physical it is. Through painting I can loosen my grip on reality, but sculpture forces me to consider the gravity of the problem. I wrestle an idea into existence, physically manipulating materials, to give an idea form, or realise it from an existing drawing.
Over time an interesting dialogue begins to develop across the different dimensions and mediums. Paintings often trigger an idea for a new sculpture and the sculptural work acts as a starting point for new drawings and paintings. Each medium feeds the others and develops my visual language.