Artist statement
ConceptsThe subject matter of my work is the 'interior' and its objects and structures. Tables, chairs and staircases together with domestic objects, bowls, jugs, coffee-pots are used in conjunction with projected light or video to explore our own interior worlds of memory and imagination. The solid domestic furnishings might represent the contents of the conscious mind which is occasionally irradiated by some source - from the outside, from nature, or perhaps from the unconscious - which transforms the view. A recent video installation, 'Nocturne', in which a large table bearing carved vessels is traversed in real time by a video projection of the full moon creating ever-changing shadow combinations, marks a new interest in combining the forms of outer space with domestic imagery, which I am also exploring in charcoal drawings.
Influences
Architecture/Urban Environment, Environment/Ecology, Feminism,
Career path
MA in Fine Art, UCE, Birmingham, 1993
Current 0.5 Lecturer in Sculpture at the University of Wolverhampton (since 1998)
Currently undertaking a series of public sculpture commissions for Centro, the passenger transport executive for the West Midlands (2001-03)
Participated in the 2nd and 3rd International Ice-Carving Competition in Vaasa, Finland, 2002 and 2003
Participated in International Sculpture Symposia, Lake Vyrnwy, Wales, 2002 and 2003, work sited on Lake Vyrnwy Sculpture Trail
Group Show: 'Sensing Sculpture', Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2003
I have had numerous solo and group shows regionally and nationally since 1981 and have undertaken numerous commissions and residences regionally and nationally during the same period.
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 'Botanatomica', Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Margaret St, Birmingham
- 2010 Botanatomica, Gallery of Wonder, Fine Art Building, Newcastle University
- 2005 'Nocturne' sculpture/video installation, Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton
- 1999 Last Sitting, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 1995 Into The Interior, Mid-Pennine Arts Centre, Burnley
- 1993 MA Final Show, Custard Factory, Birmingham
- 1992 In The Melting Pot, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
- 1992 Rosemary Terry, Sculpture, Gateway Arts Centre, Shrewsbury
- 1991 Rosemary Terry, Sculpture, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
- 1987 Woodcarving, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
- 1983 Sculpture, Tettenhall Gallery, Wolverhampton
- 1979 Sculpture, Southampton Art Gallery
- 1977 Sculpture, Winchester City Art Gallery
Group exhibitions
- 2008 Made on the Premises, Eagle Works Gallery, Alexandra St, Wolverhampton
- 2007 Twelvefourbythree@eagleworks, Eagle Works Gallery, Alexandra St., Wolverhampton
- 2007 The Birmingham Open, The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham
- 2006 'Exposed' - Group Show and Open Studios, Eagle Works Studios and Gallery, Alexandra St. Wolverhampton
- 2001 International Sculpture Symposium, Ozerki Artists Village, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2000 Works on Paper, University of Wolverhampton
- 1997 Equinox, Artefact Gallery, Great Malvern, Worcestershire
- 1997 Open Studios, Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton
- 1996 Open Studios, Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton
- 1996 Lateral Perspectives, Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton
- 1996 Three Cities Show (Oxford, Birmingham, Paris), Custard Factory, Birmingham
- 1995 Open Studios, Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton
- 1994 Eagle Works 10th Anniversary, Eagle Works Studios And Gallery, Wolverhampton
- 1994 Roadworks, Bilston Art Gallery
- 1993 Eagle Works, Midlands Art Centre
- 1992 Sculpture, Wenlock Priory, Clive House, Shrewsbury
- 1992 Sculpture To Touch, Worcester Art Gallery
- 1991 Under The Eye Of Saturn, Oriel Mostyn, LLandudno
- 1991 Sculpture In The Park, Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge
- 1990 Heads, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
- 1989 Taking Root - Women's Art Now, Bristol Cathedral
- 1989 Sculpture Open, Minories, Colchester
