Anya Gallaccio
Works available
Lion Tree
2005
Bronze, green glazed porcelain, black rope
4 of series of 4
226 × 216 × 180.5 cm / 89 × 85 × 71 ins
Two Potatoes; That Shadow My Likeness
Unique
2001
Cast bronze
Largest: 10 × 19 × 15 cm / Smallest: 11 × 12 × 10 cm
Largest: 4 × 7 1/2 × 5 7/8 ins / Smallest: 4 3/8 × 4 3/4 × 4 ins
Biography
(1963–)
Gallaccio's work is primarily concerned with nature, beauty and decay, often using ephemeral materials with which she references the cyclic nature of life and death. The works' multi-sensory and experimental aspects allow the viewer to engage with the rich tactile elements as well as the conceptual grounding of each piece. The works are often in a permanent state of flux, and are displayed in a variety of settings – from inside the disused Wapping power stations to the seasonal landscape at Roche Court. More recently Gallaccio has created a series of trees cast in bronze, which are delicately contrasted by ceramic apples threaded onto ropes, which cascade out of the branches.