The first exhibition in the Marsden Woo Project Space (February - March 2010) was a solo show by glass and mixed media artist Gaea Todd, curated by Tessa Peters and Janice West.
Gaea Todd’s sculpture and installations are concerned with time and transgression. She explores the properties of glass to the limits to create taut, sinuous and fragile forms that can traverse a surface and invade space, generating ideas of control and danger, balance and gravity, entry and escape.
A main feature of the show was the spectacular ‘Reverberations’, an architectural intervention where the fabric of the building becomes a source of sensation and feeling, something which, like ourselves has the capacity to weep and to bleed. The installation is also one of cause and effect: As the viewer moves and breathes the glass veins reverberate in response, causing us to become acutely aware of our own body and its actions.
Since the show Gaea went on to win the British Glass Biennial Best in Show Award and The Royal Society of British Sculptors Bursary Award in 2010. Our exciting programme of Project Space exhibitions continues with ‘The Everyday’ until 30 April and then a solo show by Stephenie Bergman, 5 May – 18 June 2011.
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| Gaea Todd, 'Reverberations' (2010) photo © Philip Sayer/Marsden Woo Gallery |
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| Gaea Todd, 'Reverberations' (2010) photo © Philip Sayer/Marsden Woo Gallery |
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| Gaea Todd, 'Reverberations' (2010) photo © Philip Sayer/Marsden Woo Gallery |
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| Gaea Todd, 'Reverberations' (2010) photo © Philip Sayer/Marsden Woo Gallery |
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