ARTIST BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY AND STATEMENT
Above, Migrant Crossings.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Sally de Courcy was born in Canterbury, UK. 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. She took an access course at the University of the Creative Arts and progressed to a BA in Fine Art before qualifying with an MFA in 2016. During her masters she revisited these earlier medical experiences and her commitment to human rights underpins her practice. She sees her work as a reportage and a platform for discussion and aims through narrative to broach challenging or uncomfortable subjects. She is Interested in the positive and negative aspects of the human condition, and the subsequent impact on ourselves and our environment. Latterly, her work has explored the COVID19 pandemic, the continuing crisis of refugees crossing the English Channel and more 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. She lives in Woking, Surrey, UK.
Detail of Dream or Nightmare? from pandemic series.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work aims at challenging our perception of ourselves, our fragility and strength. My sculptures evolve by manipulating multiple cast objects so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Using repetition as emphasis, the decorative outcome disguises darker narratives of shared human experiences and conditions, that when revealed create dissonance. Bones are emblematic in much of my work, representing mortality and vulnerability. The sum like an optical puzzle, oscillates between beauty and nightmare. My work is not autobiographical in the figurative sense, but like many artists explores the liminal space between conscious representation and unconscious influence.
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 was born in Canterbury, UK. 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. She took an access course at the University of the Creative Arts and progressed to a BA in Fine Art before qualifying with an MFA in 2016. During her masters she revisited these earlier medical experiences and her commitment to human rights underpins her practice. She sees her work as a reportage and a platform for discussion and aims through narrative to broach challenging or uncomfortable subjects. She is Interested in the positive and negative aspects of the human condition, and the subsequent impact on ourselves and our environment. Latterly, her work has explored the COVID19 pandemic, the continuing crisis of refugees crossing the English Channel and more 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. She lives in Woking, Surrey, UK.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work aims at challenging our perception of ourselves, our fragility and strength. My sculptures evolve by manipulating multiple cast objects so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Using repetition as emphasis, the decorative outcome disguises darker narratives of shared human experiences and conditions, that when revealed create dissonance. Bones are emblematic in much of my work, representing mortality and vulnerability. The sum like an optical puzzle, oscillates between beauty and nightmare. My work is not autobiographical in the figurative sense, but like many artists explores the liminal space between conscious representation and unconscious influence.