Artist statement

A fourth generation female artist, HS draws on a childhood in rural Devon, with a chalky palette as a nod to the St. Ives group. Primarily a sculptor, but also with a practice in printmaking, photography, film snd painting. In sculpture, a variety of materials include steel, bronze, porcelain, textiles, and readymades.

Repetition with variation belie a geometrical rhythm in much of the work. With evidenced inspiration from the poetic side of science, classical forms such a drapery and figuration are incorporated into contemporary pieces.

The work achieves intimacy with audiences. By enlightening a shared truth that rests in the back of people's minds but has yet to be acknowledged. By kicking up against that truth, so that it resonates.

This practice conveys a deep understanding of life, in movement and in emotion that is intellectual. The results are enticingly pretty and viewers might be dogged by a feeling of guilty pleasure. But careful, these surfaces hide a deeper intent not motivated by response. Rather by a complex inquest into unanswerable questions. Aesthetics masks a difficult story that is empathetic to the imperfections of existence. It is fascinated with existence itself and the continuation between life and not life.