About

Virginia Leonard’s works are an extension of her body, with her movements and her thoughts embedded within their surfaces. Her forms, often large, intricate and ungainly, suggest a highly active, if not exhausting, physical process of making. In these laborious, decadent creations, Leonard adds, subtracts, caresses, and pummels clay before adding deliciously viscous resins and precious metal lustres. The resulting sculptures express a present-moment awareness, stemming from the artist’s actions and how she feels on any given day.

In the late 1980s the artist was in a serious road accident …