00:00We're thrilled to be celebrating the strength of the incredible art collection that we have here
00:05at Leeds Museums and Galleries. It's all about sculpture this summer and you'll be hopefully
00:10intrigued and curious to learn more about plaster. Art was one of the 20th century's most famous
00:15artists. He was working in this form to experiment. You'll see organic abstract forms with
00:22Garth's anti-virus sculptures. I hope you'll be intrigued to see how a contemporary artist is
00:28also working with plaster. Garth is inspired by art in the 50s with ARP's abstract form so it's
00:35interesting to make that connection with the material. I'm really thrilled to be working
00:39with Hannah Catherine Jones upstairs. Hannah's Catherine Jones is from Doncaster so we like to
00:45celebrate artists from the region in our programme and I think with this incredible sound and
00:51sculptural installation there'll be something for everyone to experience. I've been dealing with
00:56several bereavements so I knew that I wanted to channel those energies into the show grief and
01:04reflection and yeah my dad actually passed away in December so I was trying to deal with the scale of
01:13these emotions and I had a dream about photographing his ashes under a microscope which is exactly what I
01:22went and did. This exhibition Unearthings is part of Leeds Art Gallery's Summer of Sculpture and we as
01:27York Contemporary have been kind of brought in to curate this specific show so it's sitting alongside
01:33Hans Arp and Garth Evans and so I think it's a really nice kind of counterbalance to some of those
01:39shows
01:40there's so much kind of colour in this exhibition Hannah's a contemporary artist. It's gratitude and joy as
01:47well as sorrow and you know sadness. I'm delighted to be showing these it's it's it's a body of work
01:55that
01:55began during Covid lockdown. The Catalyst was some very early works that I had made as a student. I've
02:04made now a little over 200 of them and as soon as I get back home I'm aiming to make
02:10some more. It's it's it gets
02:13harder uh you know the more you make to make another one that is not one you've made before um
02:22it gets
02:23harder and harder and at some point I guess I'll have to stop. There are so few places now where
02:29sculpture is really able to be seen and you know where there's a real investment in in in maintaining
02:37and showing sculpture and Leeds. Well I guess this whole area but Leeds is one of those places that
02:44uh that does that and um as a sculptor I'm very grateful. The Summer of Sculpture exhibitions are
02:52running through until October the 4th however Hannah Catherine Jones is running through until the 30th of
02:58August.
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