ARTIST BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
Above, Beached from pandemic series
Sally de Courcy was born in Canterbury, UK. In her previous medical career, she was exposed to the suffering of refugees after a genocidal regime. After returning to the UK, she took early medical retirement due to sudden illness and retrained in Fine Art. She took an access course at the University of the Creative Arts, and progressed to a BA in Fine Art before qualifying with an MFA in 2016. During her masters she revisited these earlier medical experiences which underpin her practice. She likes her work to be a platform for discussion. In some ways she sees her work as a reportage, and aims through the narrative of her work, to broach difficult or uncomfortable subjects. Recently her work has looked at the humanitarian aspects of the COVID19 pandemic and the current crisis of refugees crossing the English Channel.
She is a member of Royal Society of Sculptors and Continuum. She has recently been published in Flux Review Magazine, Artist Talk Magazine and Articulate Magazine’s book Pandemic Art1. She has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, at the Borders Exhibition in Venice, and The Forge, The Fold Gallery, Saatchi gallery and the @OXO Gallery in London. Most recently at Fresh Air Sculpture, The Coro, Ulverston and Ty Pawb, Wrexham Wales when she was awarded the People’s Prize in January 2023. She is currently exhibiting at Ahridge House, Berkhamstead until 24th September 2023. She lives in Woking, UK.
Detail of Dream or Nightmare? from pandemic series.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work aims at challenging our perception of ourselves, our fragility and strength. My sculptures evolve by manipulating multiple cast objects so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Using repetition as emphasis, the outcome has a decorative geometry and kinetic unity that expresses are shared human experiences and conditions. Bones are emblematic in much of my work, and the contextually linked objects reveal a narrative. Although frequently ornate my sculptures hide darker and often sinister subjects that when revealed create dissonance. The sum like an optical puzzle, oscillates between beauty and nightmare. My work is not autobiographical in the figurative sense, but like many artists explores the liminal space between conscious representation and unconscious influence.
Above, Ceiling Rose from Human Rights Series
Below, Evolution, from repetition series.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Sally de Courcy was born in Canterbury, UK. In her previous medical career, she was exposed to the suffering of refugees after a genocidal regime. After returning to the UK, she took early medical retirement due to sudden illness and retrained in Fine Art. She took an access course at the University of the Creative Arts, and progressed to a BA in Fine Art before qualifying with an MFA in 2016. During her masters she revisited these earlier medical experiences which underpin her practice. She likes her work to be a platform for discussion. In some ways she sees her work as a reportage, and aims through the narrative of her work, to broach difficult or uncomfortable subjects. Recently her work has looked at the humanitarian aspects of the COVID19 pandemic and the current crisis of refugees crossing the English Channel.
She is a member of Royal Society of Sculptors and Continuum. She has recently been published in Flux Review Magazine, Artist Talk Magazine and Articulate Magazine’s book Pandemic Art1. She has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, at the Borders Exhibition in Venice, and The Forge, The Fold Gallery, Saatchi gallery and the @OXO Gallery in London. Most recently at Fresh Air Sculpture, The Coro, Ulverston and Ty Pawb, Wrexham Wales when she was awarded the People’s Prize in January 2023. She is currently exhibiting at Ahridge House, Berkhamstead until 24th September 2023. She lives in Woking, UK.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work aims at challenging our perception of ourselves, our fragility and strength. My sculptures evolve by manipulating multiple cast objects so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Using repetition as emphasis, the outcome has a decorative geometry and kinetic unity that expresses are shared human experiences and conditions. Bones are emblematic in much of my work, and the contextually linked objects reveal a narrative. Although frequently ornate my sculptures hide darker and often sinister subjects that when revealed create dissonance. The sum like an optical puzzle, oscillates between beauty and nightmare. My work is not autobiographical in the figurative sense, but like many artists explores the liminal space between conscious representation and unconscious influence.