Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2018/19 Anna Reading: The Pothole

17 May-22 Jun 2019

Overview

Anna Reading’s exhibition has been developed over the period of a year as the 16th recipient of the major UK sculpture award. Anna Reading works across sculpture, moving image and performance to address the absurd relationship between the organic and the synthetic. The works appear familiar and puzzling at once, existing between life form & architecture, ancient & futuristic and decay & regeneration. Reading aims to foreground the illogical, the emotional and the sensory. For this new exhibition at Standpoint, Reading combines layers of surplus commodity materials, including shredded foam, gravel, oyster shells, bitumen, chip forks and cardboard to create a highly tactile and fragmented environment.