Ros Burgin London, United Kingdom
Ros Burgin is a sculptor who combines globally traded materials and a variety of processes, discovering new ways to shape and inform the subject of sculpture. She makes work that considers values and comments on sustainability, the marine environment and the part women play in shaping society. Her practice covers drawing, sculpture, installation and an engagement with a sense of time and place.
Ros Burgin’s sculpture practice looks at ideas of value and sustainability with a particular focus on the marine environment, that is informed and influenced by her experiences in a previous career as a professional sailor. After the ‘Paris Agreement’ in 2015 she decided to focus on water as a key subject, initially engaging the public with a series of works looking at a particular section of the River Thames which is controlled by a lock at Teddington, which is the top of the tidal Thames, and the Thames Barrier in the east. Latterly she moved the conversation further out to sea considering the value and sustainability of the oceans themselves. For ‘Lifelines’ Burgin collaborated with the Allen Coral Atlas to raise awareness of the importance of coral reefs drawing a new scaled map of the remaining tropical coral reefs across four handmade wooden surfboards, a public artwork at Trinity Buoy Wharf , London. She is now creating drawings of the maximum and minimum extent of Arctic sea ice for a project in collaboration with Uber Boat by Thames Clippers in the Totally Thames festival.
