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Ruth Brenner is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist living and working in Newcastle upon Tyne. After graduating from Newcastle University in 2012 as a Master of Fine Art, she won a Royal British Society of Sculptors bursary award in 2013. She is currently working on a practice-led PhD researching corporeality and the bodily, both physical and mental, acts of making. 

This year, Ruth has one piece at the Cotswold Sculpture Park: Condenser, 2010 (sheet steel, 113 x 140 x 132 cm).

Condenser is a work constructed from sheet steel and has the appearance of discarded industrial equipment. Ruth says “I am interested in industrial archaeology and highlighting the much-overlooked beauty of our industrial heritage.  This piece of work was made in 2010 and has been exhibited in its polished state.  However, it now shows the rich patina of oxidisation, marking the passage of time.“

Below you will find a couple of images of some of Ruth’s recent work. Find out more at her website, www.ruthbrenner.co.uk.

Nicola Godden has had over thirty years experience as a sculptor, working in plaster and clay for bronze casting. Over the years she has worked on many site specific public works with property companies and other organisations; her most recent was the Icarus sculpture for the Olympic Village in London 2012. The bulk of her work has been private work of various sizes exhibited in galleries in the U.K, Channel Islands, Ireland and America. Nicola’s work is nearly always based on the human figure whether in an abstract from or in a realistic way. She has always wanted to work from the human form because of the feelings and emotions it conveys.

She currently has a show at Duncan R. Miller Fine Arts in St. James’s, London.

Find out more at www.nicolagodden.com.

Selected Exhibitions.
Curated, Mystic, CT. USA.
The Sculpture Garden,  Surrey.
Imagine Gallery, Suffolk.
CCA Galleries,  Jersey.
Hay Hill Gallery,  Baker Street, London.
Wimbledon Fine Arts. London.
Art Parks International, Guernsey.
Chelsea Flower Show, London.
Henley Arts and Music Festival.
The Wykeham Gallery,  Stockbridge.
Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin and Belfast.
The Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden, Surrey.
Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford .
Jonathan Poole Gallery, Gloucestershire.
Hiscox Art Café. The City, London.

Selected Public Commissions:
‘Icarus’ for The Olympic Village 2012.
‘Sir Peter Scott’ statue for The Berkeley Group plc and WWT Barn Elms Wetlands site, Barnes, unveiled by Sir David Attenborough.
‘Survivor’ for Eastman Kodak for headquarters in Philadelphia, USA.

Mel Fraser is a sculptor specialising in stone. Equally at home working on abstract or figurative pieces, she has worked from a variety of studios in and around Cambridge since the mid nineties.

Her work has been shown at a numerous art fairs around Europe and New York, The Chelsea Flower Show, at On Form 14 and 16, the country’s most prestigious sculpture exhibition devoted solely to stone and more recently at Marks Hall where she was the featured artist
Mel has worked in Carrara and Pietrasanta in Italy, at the quarries and stone yards in Kilkenny, Ireland and has a long collaboration with members of the Shona tribe from Zimbabwe.

Mel has worked in Carrara and Pietrasanta in Italy, at the quarries and stone yards in Kilkenny, Ireland and has a long collaboration with members of the Shona tribe from Zimbabwe.

In December 2015 she finished working on a larger than life-sized piece of 3 figures in Kilkenny limestone for one of the UK’s largest trade unions, the GMB.

Find out more at Mel’s website: www.melfraser.com.

The Artist Daniel Cordell was born in Hertfordshire, 1979. He now lives and creates in Devon.

Daniel studied at Loughborough University School of Art and Design, where he proudly gained a first class BA honours degree in fine art sculpture. He also spent three months studying sculpture at the prestigious Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.

Although Daniels skills are broad and likes to work with steel and stone, He is instinctively drawn to wood and has specialised in Large scale green wood carving and constructing since 2001.

Visiting and living in different cultures around the world, has always been a passion for Daniel. From these experiences he has been driven to carve a series of sculptures he calls ‘Dwellings’. His work illustrates styles of homes, from slums to castles. Daniel is not drawn to architecture of any particular period but more the feelings that buildings evoke.

He enjoys carving groups of buildings without a plan. They just evolve; one just fits in or joins another, just how many settlements evolve over time. This method feels more like the creativity of sketching, rather than a rigid process like using a pointing machine to carve a figure in stone.

Daniel also has a passion for birds and natural forms found in nature. He has decided to exhibit a variety of his work this year reflecting his different interests.

Daniel’s style has evolved over the years. He use to like to sand his sculptures very smooth. Now Daniel is drawn to creating and leaving the rough textural grooves that come naturally to the chainsaw. They can help to give energy and flow to surfaces, and allow a level of honesty of the making process to the viewer.

Come and see three of Daniel’s magical sculptures. Daniel has carefully selected the best locally, ethically and naturally durable Cypress and Cedar wood for these sculptures. They are finished with Danish oil.

See more of Daniel’s work at his website: www.dancordell.co.uk.

Katie Green makes sculptures finished with mosaic, which she considers as “the creation of one whole statement from many tiny pieces of glass and mirror”. She has been making mosaic garden sculptures for nearly twenty years, creating pieces of all sizes that she hopes can become a part of the environment in which they are placed.

Over the years, Katie has exhibited in many places, including Hidcote Manor Gardens; The Sculpture Show, Kent; Arley Hall, Cheshire; Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe; The Spring Fair, Malvern; Painswick Rococo Gardens; Cookham Festival, Berkshire; Henley Festival,Oxfordshire; Wyndcliffe Court,Monmouthshire; Godinton Gardens, Ashford; The Sculpture Park, Farnham; Donnington Hall,Lincoln.

Find out more at Katie’s website at www.ktgreenmosaics.com and her Facebook page.