What to look out for at Newbury Sculpture Park: Sculpture Snippets 4

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Published: 03:00, 28 July 2024

Not long now until the popular summer open air sculpture park pops up in the lovely grounds of historic Shaw House.

Last year, ‘Altered States’ attracted 14,000 visitors.

This year it will show 75 sculptures by 23 sculptors: a walk in the park for curator Jim Crockatt! Scroll down for our chat with Jim.

To give you a taste of what to look for, we are picking out some ‘sculpture shorts’ in the run up to the show.

Sculpture Snippets 4: Claire Chinnery

As a contemporary artist, my practice has a broad base both physically and conceptually and is not fixed in terms of media. However, my training and background are more closely aligned with sculpture than other forms.

My fascination stems from an interest in materiality, and in the relationships between objects and spaces, thinking and making, materials and environments and between the head and the hand. In many works, I have engaged with conventions of museology, and taxonomy, often studying animal subjects to explore human behaviours relative to colonial history and identity.

My work has also explored issues of otherness relative to maternal and more broadly, familial experience. I combine my research interests, through engagement with trans-disciplinary issues and practices, producing artworks in varied media. My works are both rigorously researched and painstakingly produced.

They often involve the need to learn new and diverse skills and I relish the opportunity afforded by this approach.

For a chat with Altered States curator Jim Crockatt click here https://tinyurl.com/42z8a7hh

Illustrated work may not be the actual work on show.