ARTIST BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
Above, Migrant Crossings.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Sally de Courcy is a UK artist based near London. 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 qualifying with an MFA in 2016. Her earlier diverse medical experiences both at home and abroad and her commitment to human rights continue to influence her artistic practice. She sees her work as a reportage and a platform for discussion, confronting the viewer with challenging or uncomfortable subjects. Recently her work has explored social isolation during the pandemic, the continuing crisis of refugees crossing the English Channel in small boats and most recently climate change.
She is a member of Royal Society of Sculptors. 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, The Coro, Ulverston and Ty Pâwb, Wrexham Wales, Fresh Air Sculpture, and Ovada, Oxford. She was awarded the Ty Pâwb People’s Prize in January 2023.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work aims at challenging our perception of ourselves, our fragility and strength. It explores the positive and negative aspects of the human condition, and the subsequent impact on us and the environment.
My sculptures evolve by manipulating multiple cast objects so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Bones, representing mortality and vulnerability and provocative objects are combined in my sculptures to confront difficult or uncomfortable subjects, that express are shared human experiences.
Using repetition to emphasise the subject and create visual impact, the decorative outcome disguises darker themes of human flaws and influences, that when revealed create dissonance. The sum like an optical puzzle, oscillates between beauty and nightmare, exploring the liminal space between conscious representation and unconscious influence.
Detail of Dream or Nightmare? from pandemic series.
Above, Detail of Walked Over, Human Rights series.
Below, Evolution, from repetition series.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Sally de Courcy is a UK artist based near London. 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 qualifying with an MFA in 2016. Her earlier diverse medical experiences both at home and abroad and her commitment to human rights continue to influence her artistic practice. She sees her work as a reportage and a platform for discussion, confronting the viewer with challenging or uncomfortable subjects. Recently her work has explored social isolation during the pandemic, the continuing crisis of refugees crossing the English Channel in small boats and most recently climate change.
She is a member of Royal Society of Sculptors. 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, The Coro, Ulverston and Ty Pâwb, Wrexham Wales, Fresh Air Sculpture, and Ovada, Oxford. She was awarded the Ty Pâwb People’s Prize in January 2023.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work aims at challenging our perception of ourselves, our fragility and strength. It explores the positive and negative aspects of the human condition, and the subsequent impact on us and the environment.
My sculptures evolve by manipulating multiple cast objects so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Bones, representing mortality and vulnerability and provocative objects are combined in my sculptures to confront difficult or uncomfortable subjects, that express are shared human experiences.
Using repetition to emphasise the subject and create visual impact, the decorative outcome disguises darker themes of human flaws and influences, that when revealed create dissonance. The sum like an optical puzzle, oscillates between beauty and nightmare, exploring the liminal space between conscious representation and unconscious influence.