Truly awesome new prints by our own Rebecca Holmes - it is such a pleasure to be able to host this exciting exhibition of work with Rebecca at the Eames Gallery.
Like geological forms weathering time and pressure, the anchors in our lives: grandmothers, mothers, friends, sisters and partners hold space, absorb storms, and offer grounding. Anchoress is both a tribute and a call inward to the support systems around us.
The figure of the anchoress is historically a woman who chose a life of seclusion and contemplation. Within this body of work she is a symbolic anchor: a feminine monolith, quiet yet unshakable, radiating a mystic charge. The landscapes become vessels for this archetype: dark oceans, lunar skies, and elemental surfaces that hum with power and stability.
As an extension of the printed works, She is creating a series of etched steel sculptures to introduce a physical embodiment of the theme Anchoress. Beginning with flat steel plates etched with landscape imagery, the surfaces are then cut, collaged, and reconfigured into isometric monolithic forms. These sculptural works operate as three-dimensional echoes of the prints. Landscapes made solid, narrative turned structure. They draw a vital thread between the two-dimensional image and the lived, spatial experience within the gallery space, linking memory, matter, and meaning.
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