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E-mail: info@rebeccanewnham.co.uk

‘The Harold Hillier Gardens near Southampton kindly offered me access to all areas of their research facilities. The resulting body of work will be shown predominantly at ‘Art in the Garden’ at the Hillier Gardens this summer, and in shows in Wimbledon and Rutland. This work explores the concept of energy, photosynthesis and geometry within a language of botanical structures. In particular it focuses upon the production of energy within plants and it is a metaphoric exploration of triumphant life via symbolic botanical form. Previously I have looked to pollen, seeds, fruit and stages of botanical growth as symbols of auspicious vitality. Geometry and numbers are fundamental to genesis and are intrinsic to this group’

 

 

 

 

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Rebecca Newnham

Rebecca is a sculptor working in fibreglass and uses glass as a skin to her sculptures.

 

There are many layers of meaning which unite her work. Rebecca draws on symbolism and explores the botanical life cycle as a metaphor for celebrating all life.  To this end she looks at concepts such as ‘growth’ and explores detail only visible with the help of a microscope such as in the case of pollen and seeds as well as chromosomes and the DNA spiral. Numbers, their reoccurrence and the patterns they make is another fascination of this natural world.

 

Rebecca has worked with glass for about 20 years. Originally working with blown glass, but became frustrated with the scale that she could manage to produce at. She started cutting up her blown vessels to piece back together as larger works and proceeded to painting and firing float glass and cutting that up to apply to a carved form. she enjoys working on a large scale. The smallest pieces she makes are around 300mm diameter and the largest to date was 30m long.