Siobhán Hapaska
'Like deranged fusions of alien beasts, abstract sculpture and hobby-craft, Hapaska's creations push the limits of narrative art... a welcome return.' Time Out
This is Siobhán Hapaska's first solo exhibition in the UK since her acclaimed show at the ICA in 1995. Her sculptures incorporate extraordinary objects from palm trees to buffalo skulls, goat skins to old socks.
They create metaphors reflecting on the fundamentals of life, unearthing the unsaid and the troubling.
Her sculptures of the mid 1990s had highly finished metallic fibreglass surfaces. Her new works reflect on how things have changed since. Their scale is larger than human. Themes of fertility and potential abound in 'Dry Spring' which uses copper pipe and flowers.
Politics, technology, speed, travel and nature are all made reference to, but ultimately you are encouraged to open your minds to the space her sculptures leave for imaginations to take hold.