Anna Reading: Baby Bear

This wall based work wants to perform, mutate and grow. A hybrid of forms and materials, shoots poke out of a humus of rock and shell. Cradling its own light source, the work melts into itself, and reflects back its own inner iridescence.

Product Information

2024

Jesmonite, pigment, metal, wood, Oyster shell, sand, volcanic sand, candle

41 x 22 x 18cm

About the Artist

Born in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1987, Anna Reading (she/her) lives and works in London. In 2010, Reading graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central St Martins, and in 2017 gained an MfA in Sculpture from Slade School of Fine Art. Her work deals with issues around anthropocentric perspectives and the subsequent impacts upon environments, bodies, and human psyches. Her sculptural works attempt to engage and collaborate with the environment around us, looking for lessons in survival within hostile settings.

Reading creates hybrids of imagery, materials and forms to highlight the unruly spaces at the edges of the built environment. Recent exhibitions include These Mad Hybrids at RWA Bristol (2024), The Amber Rooms at Matts Gallery (2023), Brute at Kristian Day Gallery (2022), Still Here at APT Gallery (2023). Reading was the winner of the 2018-19 Mark Tanner Sculpture Award. 

Shipping

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Please note this work is not available for standard shipping. Please collect in person or arrange a courier by contacting info@sanmeigallery.co.uk after check out.

This work is part of our 2024 Winter Fundraiser and will be available for collection from 14th - 20th December or shipped via Royal Mail Tracked 24 unless stated otherwise