OLIVIA BAX – HANDRAILING
2024-09-23In this new series, Olivia Bax explores the relationship between material and form in response to the New Art Centre’s gallery space. It is an apt setting for her ongoing interest in the linear and the solid, the interior and the exterior.
Her sculpture is unexpected in every way, from its playful compositions to its unconventional materials – paper pulp, chicken wire, household paint. Welding metal armatures and assembling protruding limbs, she pushes us to consider different perspectives. The title of the exhibition is indicative of the exploratory process behind her work; ‘Handrailing’ is a term used in rock climbing or orienteering to move through or along a space. This resonates with Bax in her process of making and taking a work from one stage to the next.
Opposite – Great Catch, 2024
Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2024
NewArtCentre
Roche Court
East Winterslow
Salisbury
SP5 1BG
