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Sophie Ryder
Sophie Ryder (born 1963) is a British sculptor, painter, printmaker and collagist[1] known for her large wire structures. Ryder typically uses bronze, wet plaster embedded with found materials, sheet metal, marble, and stained glass. BiographySophie Ryder was born in London, England, in 1963. She studied combined arts at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1981 to 1984, focusing initially on painting. She changed her focus when the Royal Academy's director, Sir Hugh Casson, encouraged her skills development in sculpture.[2] Works Ryder's sculptures sometimes represent mystical creatures, animals and hybrid beings created in assemblages of materials such as sawdust, wet plaster, obsolete machinery, toys, weld joins, wire 'pancakes', torn scraps of paper and charcoal sticks. Her iconography includes the character of the Lady Hare, which she sees as a counterpart to Ancient Greek mythology's Minotaur. Her most known piece is the Lady Hare, a hare with a female human body. The works have been commended for questioning human relationships to the natural and folkloric worlds while contemplating dualities of perception.[4][5][6] In 1994, a depiction of five minotaurs was excluded from an exhibition at Winchester Cathedral because the sculpture included genitalia as part of the anatomy.[7] Ryder has stated, "I don't sit and contemplate what it is I am trying to achieve. My head is full of ideas all the time. It is part of my life. I don't plan anything, it just comes." Similarly, when asked about the prominence of hares in her work, the artist stated, "it's the same as asking me why I make sculptures, and the answer is because I feel driven to. So it's difficult to always pin down reasons. My introduction to hares was when my lurcher dog would proudly bring hares home and drop them at my feet."[8] Solo shows[9]1987 – Edward Totah Gallery, London Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury 1988 – St. Paul's Gallery, Leeds Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury 1990 – Newport City Museum & Art Gallery, Newport, Gwent Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury Henley Festival, Henley-on-Thames Berkeley Square Gallery, Landon 1991 – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 1992 – Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury 1994 – Winchester Cathedral, Inner Close, Winchester Red House Museum & Gardens, Christchurch, Dorset The Allen Gallery (Garden), Aton, Hampshire 1995 – Berkeley Square Gallery, London 1996 – Belloc Lowndes Gallery, Chicago 1997 – O'Hara Gallery, New York Berkeley Square Gallery, London 1998 – Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury 1999 – Berkeley Square Gallery, London Victoria Art Gallery, Bath 2000 – Berkeley Square Gallery, London Odapark, Venray, The Netherlands Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury Buschlon Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver BC 2001 – Galerie de Bellefeuile, Montréal 2002 – Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, Kent, UK Courcoux & Courcoux Galley, Salisbury 2003 – Berkey Square Galley, London 2004 – Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury Storey Galleries, Lancaster 2005 – Canary Wharf, London Solomon Gallery, Dublin 2006 – Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 2007 – Imago Galleries, Palm Desert Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids 2008 – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2009 – Victoria Art Gallery, Bath 2010 – Ayphoe Park, Oxfordshire Chateau Saint Rosaline, Les Arc-sur Argens 2011 – Ayphoe Park, Oxfordshire 2012 – Cartwright Hall Aré Gallery, Bradford Villa D’Arte, Pietrasanta, Italy 2013 – Cola Landis Contemporary Art Gallery, Moreton in- Marsh Royal West Academy, Bristol Imago Galleries, Palm Desert 2014 – New Brewery Arts, Cirencester Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Stockbridge 2016 – Hignell Gallery, London Sophie Ryder Rising, Waterhouse and Dodd, Rising, New York 2017 – Hignell Gallery, London 2018 – Galerie de Bellefeuile, Montreal References
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