Now Open I Olivia Bax: Handrailing

In the gallery until 10 November 2024.

Olivia Bax, Handrailing at the New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Gallery view
Great Catch, 2024, Steel, chicken wire, plaster, paper, epoxy clay, PVA, household paint, steel funnels, drain covers, tent hooks, beach ball, 213 x 140 x 166 cm

In Handrailing, the work proposes a desire to reach out and touch or be touched. By moving the armature from the inside to the outside, Bax is in fact looking at the outside in. Reframing the sculpture, with the steel drawings of its support, or as Bax has said, ‘I try and reverse my own process, making the work the wrong way round.’ - Calvin Winner, September 2024

On Saturday, we celebrated the opening of Olivia Bax's exhibition of new work at Roche Court Sculpture Park in collaboration with Sid Motion Gallery.

In 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. The works come alive through vivid colour and heavily textured forms, with openings through which the spectator may immerse themselves in an alternate reality that she has created.

Private View of Olivia Bax: Handrailing at Roche Court Sculpture Park, 14 September 2024