ABSTRACT
An artist who works primarily with ephemeral or transient forms in various materials, which are in time transformed by natural forces. After studying at Goldsmiths' College (1985-8), she had her first solo exhibition at Karsten Schubert in London (1991), and has continued to exhibit there regularly. She has used fruit, as in Tense (1990), where a ton of fresh oranges were left until they had rotted on a warehouse floor; sunflowers between glass sheets (Preserve 'Sunflower', 1991); rose heads (Red on Green, 1992); gerberas, threaded together (Head Over Heals, Stephen Friedman Gallery, 1995), and walls coated with liquid chocolate, as in Couverture (1994, Filiale, Basle). Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Madrid, Prato, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Geneva, Brussels, Milan, Tijuana, Winterthur and elsewhere. In 1995 she made an outside installation in Cowleaze Wood, near Oxford, commissioned by the Chiltern Sculpture Trail; this, paradoxically, was man-made: a flower-patterned carpet fitted around the trees, but still, of course, open to decay. In 1996 her installation Intensities and Surfaces at Wapping Pumping Station consisted of 35,500 kg of ice, a block 3 m-high, 4 m-square, which, in juxtaposition with half a ton of rock salt, gradually melted. In 2001 she made sculpture out of arctic ice brought to Shad Thames London; it included usable drinking glasses made of this impermanent material.
