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FROM 27 SEPTEMBER 2024

 

EMMA WOFFENDEN
Look, Step, Walk

In Look, Step, Walk, a group of five works by Emma Woffenden express an interest in distilling form, simplifying the complex, cooling the emotive, emptying. This act, Woffenden explains, can be uncomfortable, yet also illuminating.


I enjoy the possibility for sculpture to describe an action, it can be slight, a world of slowed examined moments or movements, experiences also echoed in the act of making, lifting, pouring, balancing, gripping... Simplifying the figure is an act of clarifying the exact moment and gesture. Fragmented and whole human bodies can convey a futuristic and primal sense, and talk about hierarchal power and powerlessness, human dislocation and reconciliation.

– Emma Woffenden

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Tightrope Walker (2024)
Jesmonite and wood
h.106 x w.66 x d.60cm
Series of 3

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New Body (2020)
Jesmonite
h.104 x w.45 x d.40cm
Edition of 4

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Onlooker (2017) 
Mould blown glass, reinforced styrofoam, Jesmonite
h.65 x w.30 x d.20cm

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Who Will Have the Power (2020)
Flame blown glass, reinforced styrofoam
h.70 x w.140 x d.30cm

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Glance (2023)  
Jesmonite, polystyrene, glass, plasticine
h.26cm

Emma Woffenden employs a full range of complex glass and mixed media techniques to make works that explore the body in complete and fragmented states, and in movement. Her work in its symmetry and balance looks for equilibrium, when walking the body is at different points of balance, falling, regaining balance it can also appear precarious. Woffenden’s uncanny forms trespass upon the viewer’s imagination, casting an oblique light on the human condition, they have a palpable sense of internal conflict. The work has evolved with glassmaking at the centre, using transferable skills and ‘glass shapes’ as a developing language of form. She also exhibits groups of drawings under the title Wall of Drawings. As well as her studio practice, she has collaborated with her partner designer Tord Boontje and in 2016 completed a three year appointment as the Artistic Director of North Lands Glass in Scotland.

Widely recognised as one of Britain's leading glass artists, her work is included in over 25 international public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, York Museum and Art Gallery, Crafts Council London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Corning Museum of Glass USA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, Shanghai Museum of Glass, China. Her work has been supported by the Arts Council of England (2017/18), Creative Scotland (2016), National Glass Centre (2017), Jerwood makers award (2010), Arts Foundation award (1997) and Crafts Council (1984/94).

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FROM 27 SEPTEMBER 2024

 

EMMA WOFFENDEN
Look, Step, Walk

In Look, Step, Walk, a group of five works by Emma Woffenden express an interest in distilling form, simplifying the complex, cooling the emotive, emptying. This act, Woffenden explains, can be uncomfortable, yet also illuminating.

MARSDEN WOO


Tightrope Walker (2024)
Jesmonite and wood
h.106 x w.66 x d.60cm
Series of 3

MARSDEN WOO
MARSDEN WOO


New Body (2020)
Jesmonite
h.104 x w.45 x d.40cm
Edition of 4

I enjoy the possibility for sculpture to describe an action, it can be slight, a world of slowed examined moments or movements, experiences also echoed in the act of making, lifting, pouring, balancing, gripping... Simplifying the figure is an act of clarifying the exact moment and gesture. Fragmented and whole human bodies can convey a futuristic and primal sense, and talk about hierarchal power and powerlessness, human dislocation and reconciliation.

– Emma Woffenden

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Onlooker (2017) 
Mould blown glass, reinforced styrofoam, Jesmonite
h.65 x w.30 x d.20cm

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Who Will Have the Power (2020)
Flame blown glass, reinforced styrofoam
h.70 x w.140 x d.30cm

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Glance (2023)  
Jesmonite, polystyrene, glass, plasticine
h.26cm

Emma Woffenden employs a full range of complex glass and mixed media techniques to make works that explore the body in complete and fragmented states, and in movement. Her work in its symmetry and balance looks for equilibrium, when walking the body is at different points of balance, falling, regaining balance it can also appear precarious. Woffenden’s uncanny forms trespass upon the viewer’s imagination, casting an oblique light on the human condition, they have a palpable sense of internal conflict. The work has evolved with glassmaking at the centre, using transferable skills and ‘glass shapes’ as a developing language of form. She also exhibits groups of drawings under the title Wall of Drawings. As well as her studio practice, she has collaborated with her partner designer Tord Boontje and in 2016 completed a three year appointment as the Artistic Director of North Lands Glass in Scotland.

Widely recognised as one of Britain's leading glass artists, her work is included in over 25 international public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, York Museum and Art Gallery, Crafts Council London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Corning Museum of Glass USA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, Shanghai Museum of Glass, China. Her work has been supported by the Arts Council of England (2017/18), Creative Scotland (2016), National Glass Centre (2017), Jerwood makers award (2010), Arts Foundation award (1997) and Crafts Council (1984/94).

For more information or to enquire about sales, please contact Tatjana Marsden
info@marsdenwoo.com
+44(0)20 7336 6396

Enquire about sales

View Emma Woffenden's Artist Profile