Trying to Understand the Brick (Thinking of Carl Andre and the British Tabloid Press) - Jim Roseveare
130cm x 60.7cm x 52cm …this includes display cabinet.
Jim Roseveare
Jim Roseveare’s art practice investigates the perception and making of landscape, focusing on the complex, ever-changing and entangled relationships between people, nature and culture. An arboricultural background of working with trees for over 35 years grounds his practice in an understanding of organic material and the interplay with the urban environment. Tree surgery is a form of sculpture with living entities that constantly change with cycles of growth, dormancy, decline and decay. This informs his approach to form, function, mutability and time in producing sculptures and site-specific installations.
Bio
Jim Roseveare has exhibited internationally and in the UK including Istanbul art fair; Saatchi gallery; Venice Bieannale; Kinokino, Sandes, Norway; Museo Maco, Mexico; Farley Farm House; Transition gallery, London. In 2021 he was selected for Emergency 21 at Aspex gallery, Portsmouth. Latterly he exhibited at Gallery 46, Whitechapel and was resident artist at the blackShed gallery. He is a frequent exhibitor with The London Group and is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
How does your work for this exhibition relate to Uncertain Edges?
My work often uses building materials; modular constructions which have the appearance of solidity, longevity and certainty but they are frequently fragile and intended to change with the processes of decay and life.
Jim Roseveare
Can you explain your artistic process?
Artistic process originates from the building site; the archaeological dig; the architecture of civilisation and my work as a tree surgeon. It is a haptic enquiry into material and it’s significance for humanity both past and future. I use industrial and living material such as concrete, detritus and seeds.
Jim Roseveare
Can you explain something about the content of your work and the inspiration/impetus behind it?
Work is made in the studio or from specific sites where it develops from urban or rural landscapes. Swept detritus from the urban environment is often mixed with concrete while clay, sand and soil may be dug to make brick constructions.
Jim Roseveare