Rosie Leventon Greater London, United Kingdom
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Installation. Environmental art . sculpture . paintings & drawings . Many exhibitions & Commissions 14 countries . Interests : Vernacular architecture / Green concerns, contemporary Issues . Work currently in 2 sculpture parks forests & galleries. Work may be permanent or temporary often site responsive. Works around the country including Woodland Trust at QEDJ woods Leics.

Women in Sculpture 1960 - 2023. Saatchi Gallery London - 22.1.24. Sculptor Women 1960 - 2022. Hepworth Wakefield , Gallery Walk, Wakefield.Yorkshire UK. 29.3.23 - 24.9.23 Solo exhibitions : 2021 Ripple of Light. : BLANK_ University Centre Leeds, LS2 7BS Jan 2022:. 2020 Felix Spear Gallery . London . Serpentine Gallery Wake, Chisenhale Gallery . Re-Siting Installation, Royal College of Art, Art at Broadgate , Atrium Gallery 2018.. Up the Duff, Lubomirov Angus Hughes Gallery and Royal Academy. Summer show in London.

Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral. Endangered Dust, Portland Museum, Isle of Portland Dorset.

Prospects and Interiors - Recent Acquisitions of Sculptor’s Drawings, Henry Moore Institute

Leeds. On Site, Yorkshire Sculpture Park , Wakefield. Guest Artist, Rag Factory London.

Solo Exhibitions, Mappin Gallery Sheffield. Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Kettles Yard

Cambridge.Edge 90 International Biennale of Innovative Visual Art Newcastle. Et Pendant

ce Temps … and Unfold, Nettie Horn Gallery London. Speculations: Making Thinking

Drawing, Hatton Gallery Newcastle University.

Concrete and Glass. Shoreditch Town Hall, Curiouser and Curiouser, Waterloo Tunnels

London. Undercurrent. Fabrica Brighton.

Internationally including:

Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Galleria L’Affiche Milan. Up the Duff , ON PERMANENT

EXHIBITION: La Fortezza del Girifalco, Cortona , Italy. Museo d’Arte Contemporani

Barcelona – Brandts Klaedefabrik Denmark - Der Pfalzgalerie Kaisers Lautern Germany

- Dostoyevsky Museum St Petersburg Russia, - Prague Festival of Contemporary Art.

Czech Republic. Next. BECA Foundation Albuquerque USA . Convergence International

Arts Festival Rhode Island USA

Public Art commissions include:

Now and Then . Permanent commission for the Woodland Trust for their flagship Queen

Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Woods in Leics UK. Queens House at the National Maritime Museum London. Two works for King’s Wood, Stour Valley Arts in Kent, The Irwell

Sculpture Trail Manchester . Portland Quarry and Sculpture Trust, Tout Quarry, Isle of

Portland Dorset. B- side Commission, Portland museum, Isle of Portland.

Awards include: 2020 Felix and Spear Award. Royal Society of Sculptors Spotlight Award 2021. Arts Council, Rouse Kent Award for Public Art, Elephant Trust, British Council , Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture, Henry Moore Sculpture Trust. UJADF ( UK / Japan Art Design & Film ) Winner. Installation

Reviews include:

The Guardian, The Times, the Independent, Channel 4 TV , BBC 1 TV

Countryfile 7 – 8 pm 23.2.2014. Inside Artists Magazine. Sept 2016. P 72 – 75 ( https://issuu.com/insideartists/docs/inside_artists_-_issue_6/1 )

Books include :

Destination Art. Amy Dempsey 2021 Published by Thames and Hudson. The State of Art – Installation and Site Specific #2. bare hill publishing 2015.

‘Thinking is Making, Presence and Absence in Contemporary Sculpture’ Black Dog Publishing. 2013 .

‘Meditative Spaces’ by Michael Freeman

FABRICA The First 10 years, Introduction by Caroline Collier, Essays by Matthew Miller, Liz Whitehead. 2007 Published by Fabrica. Brighton.

KING’S Wood : A CONTEXT Ed. Liz Kent & Sandra Drew. Publ. by Stour Valley Arts.

INSIDE ARTISTS Issue 6 autumn 2016. Contemporary Artists& Exhibitions. Editors: Kieran Austin, Toby Oliver Dean. Hove E Sussex.

Installation art by Nicholas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley. Michael Petry

Interested in
Art Walk/TrailCommissionExhibitionParticipatory project
Media
DrawingGlassInstallationSculptureSocially Engaged Practice
Other keywords
AbstractEnvironmentExperimentalFigurativeLandscapeParticipatorySite-specific