Approved: 16.08.2006

Rosie Leventon

Artist, Maker

Approved: 16.08.2006

Rosie Leventon makes Sculptural installations, Interventions , Public Art Commissions , Environmental Artwork, paintings and drawings some of which are permanent and some ephemeral. Green issues run through the work. Many of the pieces are architectural and relate to or use their surroundings in some way,  often containing paradoxes and surprises. Archaeology has often been the starting point for work. A recurrent theme is to do with things that have been lost hidden or forgotten.

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    Rosie Leventon makes Sculptural installations, Interventions , Public Art Commissions , Environmental Artwork, paintings and drawings some of which are permanent and some ephemeral. Green issues run through the work. Many of the pieces are architectural and relate to or use their surroundings in some way,  often containing paradoxes and surprises. Archaeology has often been the starting point for work. A recurrent theme is to do with things that have been lost hidden or forgotten.

     

     

    In  2022 she had work in 3 Sculpture Parks : In Harmony,, an exhibition of outdoor sculpture  at Broomhill Estate , Devon. Free Open: everyday  10 - 5. till 30 .9.22.

    Collaborations: Contemporary Sculpture : 6.8.22 – 24.9.22  Goodnestone Park Gardens, Goodnestone, Kent. CT3 1PL, ( Canterbury 7 miles.)

    Open everyday 11 – 5.  Phone: +4 1304 840107  4

    Blowing hot & Cold. made 2021 with the Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award is visible at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer. Near Gerrards Cross.

       Hours:  11 – 4 pm  Thurs – Sun.  CSF. Fulmer Common Road. SL3 6HG  Near Gerrards Cross ,Bucks.

    Appointments email :  [email protected]

    Also a drawing has been selected for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize / Working drawing Award.

    Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize / Working Drawings Award, Sept. 29.2022 -  Feb 2023. . The Chainstore, Trinity Buoy Wharf,  64 Orchard Place London E14 0JW.   LAUNCH: Wed 28.9.22 6.30 – 9.30 pm Then On Tour till early 23.

     

     

    Ripple of Light, new work by Rosie Leventon is on at BLANK_ Gallery, University Centre Leeds,  Quarry Hill Campus, Playhouse Square, LS2 7BS.Open Mon - Fri 10 - 4 .Till 14 Jan 2022

          www.Instagram.com/blank_leeds/

    Recently she  made new small versons of the series Up the Duff  casting them in bronze and aluminium.  In 2020 She won 2 Awards: the Felix & Spear Prize and the Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award. The second one is a new outdoor sculpture  for Sculpture at Fulmer. https://www.contemporarysculpturefulmer.com/appointments/ at Fulmer, in Bucks. The exhibition runs till Oct 24th 2021 Open Thurs - Suns  by apt.

    She  was  commissioned by b - side Festival  to make a piece which was shown in the museum on the Isle of Portland Dorset 2018 .  She has had a work selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place  London E14 0JY.  24 Sept - 4 Oct 2018  and touring nationally till 2019.   She also had a drawing in the The Sculpture Collections show at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery , Leeds  22 March - 20 May 18.  

    In 2017, she had 4 shows  in  London and  Italy. The first  a one person show at Art at Broadgate in the Ground Floor atrium of Exchange House. London.

     Recently she  made new small versons of the series Up the Duff  casting them in bronze and aluminium. 

     Modern,   one person show at  Atrium Gallery ,Art at Broadgate   was called    The Sheltering Five, Feb 21 - April 18. &  Traces of Traces at the same venue.  And in Italy   with Leandro Lottici at Galleria L'Affiche,  Milan. May 4 - June 1.  in  Cortona  at La Fortezza del Girifalco, in Tuscany  June 10 -  onwards. The series of 5 sculptures are now on permanent display in the castle  .

    She has made false floors and corridors that float on water underfoot. Some work involves looking through and behind the surfaces of modern day living to find something lost  hidden or forgotten beneath . Work is often interactive, people can explore it by going inside or use it as a performance area, for contemplation or as seating. Three years ago she  completed a permanent Environmental artwork for the Woodland Trust  from 2012 - ,  for their flagship  Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods In  Leics. In 2015 she  showed  5 sculptures called Up the Duff in a 2 person show at Angus Hughes Gallery London and in Venice at the Ansenale  in the  Arte Laguna Prize .

    She  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 the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Germany, USA, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and France.   She took part in TINA B Festival of Contemporary Art , Zizkov, Prague, Czech Republic ( Nov 2011 - Jan 2012), and a piece can be seen at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich London, (Room 4B ground floor, the Queens House. Check for occasional closures at: www.rmg.co.uk - (Latest visitor Info.). Also 2 pieces at King's Wood, Challock Forest in Kent, and at Clifton Country Park near Manchester as part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail.

     Books: Destination Art, by Amy Dempsey. ( Thames & Hudson ) 2021. The State of Art .  Installation & Site Specific #2  bare hill publishing. ( ISBN 978-1-909825-15-4). " Thinking is making, Presence & Absence in Contemporary Sculpture ", Published by Black Dog . Matilda Strang, Martin Herbert, Fiona MacDonald. ( ISBN 978 1 908966 04 9) Available from : www.standpointgallery.co.uk . FABRICA - The First ten years, (ISBNO 9543380-2-2) Mathew Miller & Liz Whitehead. King's 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) Sculpture Parks & Trails of England by Alison Stace. A & C Black.( ISBN 978-0-7136-7952-6)

    CV & Education

    2023 - 4

     2023 - Jan 22. 2024  If not now when. Women in Sculpture . Saatchi Gallery. London SW3

     If not now when. Generations of Women Sculptors in Britain. The  Hepworth Wakefield  1960 – 2022 .March  31 – Sept 24 2023  Gallery Walk, Wakefield West Yorkshire, WF1 5AW

    T: +44 (0)1924 247360  E: [email protected]

    Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden ,Thirsk .  North Yorkshire YO7.

    Royal Society of Sculptors exhibition 3.May – 8 July.  Wed – Sat 11

    – 5 and by appointment + sculpture will remain on site for one year.

    Tel: +44 (0) 203 764 2470

    Email: [email protected]

    Instagram: @willoughbygerrish

     

    In Harmony. Broomhill Sculpture Gardens, Muddiford,  Open 10 - 5    N.Devon. EX31 4EX -

    2024  PHONE:  01271 850 

      

    2022

    Abstract   Surface Gallery. 16 Southwell Road ,Nottingham NG1

    1DL   March   25. 2022 – April 9 .22 .  . info@surface gallery.org  +44 0115 947 0793

     In Harmony  : Inaugural exhibition of sculpture featuring 30

    sculptures by 17 of the UK’s leading artists .

    The sculpture is set within 3 acres of ancient woodland and water gardens  each with bespoke planting.

    10.6.22 – 30.9.22 .  Open 10 – 5 everyday

    email: [email protected]    Phone: 01271 850 262

    Broomhill Estate, Muddiford. Barnstaple. EX 31 4EX

     

    2021 -22. The Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award sculpture is now sited at Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer. https://www.contemporarysculpturefulmer.com/appointments/ https://www.contemporarysculpturefulmer.com/exhibitions/10/works/artworks-9440-rosie-leventon-blowing-hot-cold-2020/ Fulmer.  Its in Bucks near Gerrards Cross.SL3 6HG 

    2018 - A commission for b-side Festival. Isle of Portland Dorset UK. Endangered Dust shown at Portland Museum. 217 Wakeham Portland DT5 1 HS from 7.9.18 - 16.11.18 
    2014 -   A  permanent commissioned site-referential earthwork with planting, The Woodland Trust, Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods, Normanton le Heath Leics.

    Qualifications and training
    1981 - Post-Graduate, St Martins, London
    1979 - BA Hons, Croydon College of Art, Croydon
    1975 - Chinese Language and Archaeology, London University

    Solo exhibitions

    2021.  Ripple of Light. New work by Rosie Leventon. BLANK_  University of Leeds. Quarry Hill Campus, Playhouse Square. 5.11.21 - 14.1.22  Open: Mon - Fri 10 - 4.30  Christmas Closing:  13.12.21 - 4.1.22 

    Winner of Felix & Spear Prize. ENDANGERED DUST.   Felix and Spear Gallery,  71 St Mary's Road. Ealing Broadway. London W5 5RG

     

    2017 - Art at Broadgate.  The Sheltering Five. Feb  -  April. + Absentee  April - May . Atrium Gallery,  Exchange House. near Liverpool St Stn. London.  EC2A 2HS

    2015 - 2 Person show. Up the Duff London. Angus Hughes Gallery Hackney London.
    2007 - Drawings, eyestorm, 11 Sumner St. (Opp. Tate Modern) Bankside, London
    2007 - The Front Room, Salt gallery,  Nr St Ives, Cornwall
    2004 - Fabrica, Brighton
    2002 - Standpoint Gallery, London  - Gardner Arts centre. Brighton.
    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 - A Long Way From The Bathroom, Lokaal 01, Breda. Holland
    1997 - Dean Clough Contemporary Art Galleries, Halifax
    1996 - A Long Way From The Bathroom , Bonington Gallery, Noittingham
    1996 - A Long Way From The Bathroom , Cafe Gallery, London
    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

    Selected Group exhibitions

    2019 -20

    East/West Artists Awards exhibition. La Galleria, Unit 5B. Pall

    Mall London SW1Y 4UY   27.10 19 -2.11.19  2 – 6 daily

     Email: [email protected]  Phone: 020 7930 8069 

     

    ART. NUMBER 23.

    Sat 6.11.19 Opening event. 6-9 pm . Chapter 1 . Dimitriou Eginitou 8.

    Thissio.  ATHENS   Phone: +44 ( 0) 7570946696.  16.11 19 – 16.1.20. Open every day 12 – 5.

    Contemporary Art at Wells Cathedral. Cloisters Garden Summer 2019

    Composition 2.  Lichfield festival Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Lichfield Cathedral . 19 A The Close,Lichfield Staffs. WS13 7LD . July 5 – 27 2019. Open 10 - 4 . 7 days per week ( excluding cathedral services.) FREE

     T: 01543 306 100  E: [email protected]

     The London Group Show  Part 1.  20 .11.19 -  29.11.19  Daily 2 – 6.  The Cello Factory,  33 – 34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo London SE1 8TJ 

    Website: www. thelondongroup.com

    Email:[email protected]

     

    2018 -19  Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.  PV & Prizes:  26.9.18  then 24.9.18 - 4.10.18 then touring nationally till July 6. 2019. Further info: trinitybuoywharfdrawingprize.drawingprojects.uk

    2018 The Sculpture Collection. Henry Moore Inst / Leeds Art Gallery,  21.3.18 -  20.5.18  2017   Two person show  (with Leandro Lottici,) Galeria L'Affiche Milan,  Two person show (with Leandro Lottici) La Fortezza del Girifalco, Cortona, Italy.  Now on show permanently in the castle.

     2016   Enclave Landart Residency, Vistabella del Maestrazgo, Spain

    2015   Up the Duff London. 2 person show with Leandro Lottici. Angus Hughes   Gallery. Hackney London. June 6 - 28 Fri - Sun 12 -6  or by Apointment:

    The Arte Laguna Sculpture Prize. March 21 - April 5. Arsenale, Venice.

     Self Memories - the Contemporary Sense of Awareness.  Ca' Zanardi, Venice. 5.8 - 15.8

     Guest Artist :  TIAF London. 2015  The Rag Factory  16 - 18 Heneage St.     

               London  E1. ( Off Brick Lane.)  14 .10 - 18 .10

      Speculations: Making Thinking Drawing. Hatton Gallery Univ. of Newcastle .26.6 - 8 8

    2014 TIAF London. The Independant Artists Fair, The Rag Factory. London.

              The Argentine  Biennale, Buenos Airres..

    2013 The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2013. Sculpture show by the ten Winners and Book  launch, Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet St. London.

    Reforest. Stour Valley Arts, Ashford 2013 - The London Group. The Cello Factory,  Waterloo.London.

    • 2012 - INSIDE. Blankspace Blank Media Collective, Manchester.
    • 2011 - Prague festival of Contemporary Art, Galerie Vernon, and Vernon Project Space, Central Prague. Czech Republic.- Cork Street Open, In aid of Papyrus - prevention of young suicide, Cork Street. London
    • 2011 - NEXT New developments in Contemporary art, BECA Foundation. , 312 Rosemont Avenue. Albuquerque, NM USA2010
    • 2011 - Pride in the House. One of 3 Winners., Lauderdale House., Highgate, London
    • 2010 - Curiouser & Curiouser. Old Vic Tunnels. Waterloo London. Punctuation Marks. Henry Moore Institute Leeds.
    • 2009 Concrete & Glass. Shoreditch Town Hall. London. Prospects & Interiors, Recent Acquisitions of Sculptors Drawings. Henry Moore Institute. Leeds. UNFOLD, NETTIE HORN GALLERY, 25b Vyner st. Bethnal Green. London. Workshop of Hereafter., Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, , South Kensington, London.
    • 2008 CONSIDERED MATTER, Mid Pennine Gallery,, Yorke St, Burnley,2008 - ET PENDANT CE TEMPS, Nettie Horn gallery, 25b Vyner St. Bethnal green. london .PARALLAX, Fieldgate Gallery., 14 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel. London.  'Prospects & Interiors', RECENT ACQUISITIONS OF SCULPTORS DRAWINGS, Henry Moore Institute ,74 The headrow, Leeds
    • 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. MODA Outsize,                               Museum of  Domestic Design & Architecture, Barnet.  Open Sculpture, RWA, Bristol
    • 2001 - Sculpture Exhibition, Millfield, Somerset. Royal Society of British Sculptors             show. London Jerwood Drawing Exhibition touring to Switzerland.
    • 2000 - Royal Society of British Sculptors Summer Exhibition, London
    • 1999 - Notes form Underground, Dostoyevsky Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
    • 1999 - Women in Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, Connecticut, USA
    • 1998 - New Visions of the Sea, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
    • 1997 - Artist in Residence, Irwell Sculpture Trail, Manchester 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, Midlands1992 - East And South, Norwich Gallery
    • 1992 - Frankfurt Art Fair
    • 1991 - Leeds Polytechnic Gallery
    • 1990 - Ubergange - 4 Sculptors from Britain., Der Pfalzgaleries, Kaisers Lautern., Germany


    Curated projects

    2018 - B- SIDE Festival.  Includes a sculpture commission for Portland Museum 217 Wakeham, Isle of Portland Dorset. 8.9.18 - 16.11.18
    2011 - Tina B International Festival of Contemporary Art., Prague. Czech Republic., Galerie Vernon. Janovskeho 23. 1700 PRAHA
    2010 - Curiouser & Curiouser., Old Vic Tunnels, ( www.submit2gravity.com), Beneath Waterloo station, London
    2008 - CONCRETE AND GLASS, Shoreditch Town Hall., 380 Old St. London EC1V 9LT

    Public commissions

    2018  b- side Festival commission.  Isle of Portland Dorset. at Portland Museum : 7.9.18 - 16.11.18
    2014 -  now & then , A permanent earthwork with planting. . Arts Council Funded. The Woodland Trust, QEDJ Woods.  Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods, Normanton le Heath in Leicestershire.
    2004 - Two sculptures for a forest,  Rouse Kent Award for Public Art. 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.

    Corporate commissions
    2003 - Convergence International Arts festival, local Business, Providence, USA

    Competitions, prizes and awards

    2020  Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award.

    2020  Felix & Spear Exhibition Prize. 

    2015 Arts Council Award. -  Rouse Kent Award for Public Art,  Elephant Trust, British Council , Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture, and  Henry Moore Sculpture Trust.  East - West Art  Awards  2002, 2010, and  2011 

     

     

      now & then. Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods, The Woodland Trust.
    2011, 12, 13 - Award winner ( Installation):EWA Awards ( East/West Artists Awards.) , ROA Gallery, Pall Mall, London
    2003 - Award Winner., 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.
    1992 - London Docklands Development Corporation, Clove One Gallery, Butler's Wharf, London
    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, ,Byam Shaw School of Art, Maidstone School of Art, Stourbridge College

    Publications

    2021  Featured artist: DESTINATION ART by Amy Dempsey. Thames & Hudson £ 10.99

    2016   INSIDE  ARTISTS  Issue 6 Autumn. Interview and photos pp 72 - 75 View online     at  https: // issuu.com / inside artists /docs / inside_artists_-_ issue_ 6/1

               INSIDEART .eu 1 page+ photo  23 -03 / 2016

    2015  The State of Art. Installation & Site Specific. # 2. Bare Hill Publishing. Sept.
    2013 - Thinking is Making, Presence and Absence in Contemporary Sculpture.Published              by Black Dog. ISBN: 978 1 908966 04 9. ( www.standpointgallery.co.uk)
    2008 - FRIEZE Magazine. Issue 118 
    2008 - Sculpture Parks and Trails of England
    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        T
               Thames & Hudson
    Other

    2018   A Sculpture called Sub - Text shown on French TV. Canal+  Arts Broadcast 30.10.18
    2009 - London Art Fair., Business design centre. Islington., London
    2009 - Stour Valley Arts, ITV Meridian TV News, Jan 12 Stour Valley Arts.
    2007 - 5 drawings bought by the, Henry Moore Institute , Leeds.

    - Reviews  : Inside Art Magazine feature. Blueprint, Sculpture Magazine USA, Dazed & Confused, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Times, The Independant, Art Forum International. Frieze Magazine,  Art Monthly, Artswork, Hot Tickets, Artscribe, Evening Standard, Arts Review,  The Architectural Digest Italy, Make, Performance Magazine, The Spectator, Time Out, Blueprint Magazine, File, 20/20 magazine.