Gallery 2 Is host to the first solo exhibition of London-based sculptor Juliet Ferguson-Rose. A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, Ferguson-Rose works predominantly in ceramics, creating works that are literally and metaphorically multi-layered. Her confident and technically skilled use of glazes and firing techniques is resulting already in a highly personal and distinctive aesthetic language. The concept of a narrative of time and place being held and preserved within the work is a recurrent theme in Ferguson-Rose’s practice. In recent works such as Forum and Threshold III (both 2023) the impressions of found objects and textures gives an identity and place-in-time to otherwise universal forms.
Ferguson-Rose writes: Through excavating, mixing, cutting, compressing and attaching clay, I unearth and create layers of surface and meaning. Drawing upon this broad visual language of making, clay components are grouped to expose topographical portals, where narratives are arranged and rearranged, becoming an assemblage of relics preserved in time, totems to future-past narratives.
Notes on the artists
Juliet Ferguson-Rose is a London-based artist and sculptor. She received a First-Class degree in Fine Art from Newcastle University (2015) and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2023. Ferguson-Rose has undertaken residencies with Collective Matter, London and Joya, Spain. She is a recipient of Arts Council England Grants (2017 & 2018), the Sir Alistair and Lady Pilkington Award (2022) and the Charlotte Fraser Prize (2023)
