Ben Hunter is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by Clementine Keith-Roach. These works build on the artist’s practice of merging found vessels with casts of body parts using paint to create impossible objects. Time, in her work, is out of joint: the vessels are antique, the body-casts are a snapshot of the present, and the paintwork blurs these temporalities together. They are a strange variant of polychrome sculpture, in which material erosion becomes a kind of impressionist painting. The exhibition comprises six new sculptures that intensify Keith-Roach’s formal language. Hands and arms rush around the vessels, grabbing...
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Clementine Keith-Roach (b. 1984) is a sculptor of new ruins. Her work centres around the process of plaster-casting. Casts taken from her body and other objects are melded with antique terracotta vessels and trompe l’oeil painted to create a continuous surface that blurs the boundary between body and object, skin and clay. Her works are reminiscent of archaeological artefacts,...