Jo Naden 'Doves'
Bronze edition of nine
Bronze edition of nine
Inspired by natural landscape and the memory of its
collective past, Jo would describe her bronze cast, carved clay sculpture as being:
“distilled from journeys of exploration and gathering.”
These journeys may begin at any point, be it poem, plant or
place, with research being central to her practice.
This way of working is well suited to commissions that
respond to a sense of place, as Shining
Stone, her sculpture situated in the Black Brook at Shenstone, Lichfield,
shows, or to an aspect of the natural world such as the Cocoa plant, responded
to in the more recent commission Theobroma,
for Cadburys.
Larger scaled sculpture is explored through commissions such
as Wish, for Crest Nicholson,
standing at just under three metres high and situated in Park Central,
Birmingham. Her moderately sized
sculptures work well in interior spaces, whilst the smaller objects – designed to
be held in the hand – change our involvement from viewer to participant.
