Virginia Leonard, The Ward At Nighttime, 2022. Image credit: Oliver King
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Virgina Leonard, Urns for unwanted limbs and other things, 2022-23, installation view. Image credit: John Cowpland.
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“An urn to hold a foot, a left leg, a shameful limp, abdominal fat, double chins, in- laws, daughters who are woke, or mothers who are not woke enough. There is an urn for everyone and everything.” - Virginia Leonard
Virginia Leonard works with clay, resin, and oozing glazes to create ceramic sculptures. Leonard’s layering adds a voluptuous tension to her work which is organic and revulsive but is also vital, evolving, and honest.
This is Leonard’s daily need, as an artist, to articulate a visual language which processes and translates life with scarring and chronic pain; a notion that we inhabit a ‘body of becoming’ and that human physicality isn’t static or closed.
Urns For Unwanted Limbs and Other Things is Leonard’s first exhibition at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga - Hastings City Art Gallery.
Opening Hours
- Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4:30pm
- Sunday, 1-4pm
Address
- 201 Eastbourne Street East
- Hastings 4122
“An urn to hold a foot, a left leg, a shameful limp, abdominal fat, double chins, in- laws, daughters who are woke, or mothers who are not woke enough. There is an urn for everyone and everything.” - Virginia Leonard
Virginia Leonard works with clay, resin, and oozing glazes to create ceramic sculptures. Leonard’s layering adds a voluptuous tension to her work which is organic and revulsive but is also vital, evolving, and honest.
This is Leonard’s daily need, as an artist, to articulate a visual language which processes and translates life with scarring and chronic pain; a notion that we inhabit a ‘body of becoming’ and that human physicality isn’t static or closed.
Urns For Unwanted Limbs and Other Things is Leonard’s first exhibition at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga - Hastings City Art Gallery.
