Rosie Leventon

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		ROSIE LEVENTON
		contact : leventon@waitrose.com phone : 0207 625 9300 web site : www.rosieleventon.com
		Rosie Leventon makes sculptural installations. Her work interweaves a kind of personal archaeology with the archaeology of contemporary society and the physical archaeology of places.
		It often contains paradoxes and surprises.
UNTITLED 2004 Stainless Steel architectural mesh 350 x 390 x 240 cms RING 2004 Earth Water 150 x 800 x 800 cms Challock Forest DIG 1997-9 Stone 1900 cm x 600 cm x 100 m Irwell Sculpture Trail
			AWARDS: Rouse Kent Award for Public Art 2004. MarkTanner Award for Sculpture 2002 Winner EWACC Online Art Competition 2003. Recent news Autumn 2007; 5 drawings bought by the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
	Rosie invites new challenges and contexts.
Rosie has undertaken many site related commissions for a disused factory, a stone quarry, galleries, museums, parks, gardens. She has worked internationally including Poland, Russia, Japan, USA, Spain, France and Germany.	B52 2003-4 Clearing in the Sweet Chestnuts. Challock Forest. 98 m long x 112m wingspan
Her work can currently be seen at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, in the Queens House, Eyestorm, Bankside, London (opp. Tate Modern), Clifton Country Park near Manchester, ( as part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail.) And in King's Wood, Challock in Kent. and in the following books:
Meditative Spaces by Michael Freeman. Universe Publishing, Rizzoli International. (Autumn 05) Kings Wood. A Context Eds. Sandra Drew and Liz Kent. Stour Valley Arts. (ISBN 09535 3409 x) Installation Art. By Nicholas de Oliviera, Nicola Oxley, Michael Petry. Thames & Hudson (ISBN 0-500-23672-0) FABRICA - the first ten years. Essays by Matthew Miller, Liz Whitehead, published by Fabrica, Brighton (ISBN 978-0-9543380-2-2). "Art for the Nation" National Maritime Museum. "The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 by David Buckman, published by Art Dictionaries.