British artist Jodie Carey’s towering, highly textured sculptures are transforming the glass atrium of 100 Bishopsgate as part of Brookfield Properties’ Beyond the Matrix exhibition series, giving a platform to female artists. Produced in partnership with The Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA), the two shows pair an artist and a curator (Eve Miller of Edel Assanti, in this instance).
Carey draws on making skills with a feminine past in her sculptures. “Juxtaposing crafts traditionally associated with women allows me to make work that offers a counterpoint to the traditional idea that sculpture needs to be heavy, solid, carved or cast, but instead can be sewn or woven, made by women and created in places outside the studio,” she explains.
Next up will be Amelia Bowles in September, in a show curated by Mille Jason Foster of Gillian Jason Gallery. Both artists explore the relationship between space, mass and materiality in works that will be beautifully offset by their glass surrounds.
Carey draws on making skills with a feminine past in her sculptures. “Juxtaposing crafts traditionally associated with women allows me to make work that offers a counterpoint to the traditional idea that sculpture needs to be heavy, solid, carved or cast, but instead can be sewn or woven, made by women and created in places outside the studio,” she explains.
Next up will be Amelia Bowles in September, in a show curated by Mille Jason Foster of Gillian Jason Gallery. Both artists explore the relationship between space, mass and materiality in works that will be beautifully offset by their glass surrounds.
Portrait of Jodie Carey, 2024. Photo: David Parry.
15 March 2024
