royal_sculptors

As 2024 draws to a close, we wish you a Merry Christmas 🎄 and look forward to seeing you in the New Year 🎉. 📸 by Mike Glide Photography @mikeglidephotography

We were delighted to see many of our Members and Fellows at this year's Christmas Party at Dora House with entertainment courtesy of Magic Liz, perfectly coordinated with our 2024 Christmas Tree by balloon artist David Croft @david_balloons

Too soon to declare a winner this early in the season, but the @royal_sculptors forecourt tree by @david_balloons Crofts entirely comprised of sausage balloons and inflatable Santa miniatures totally pops! Nice one, David.🎄🥳🎄🥳🎄

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Javier Carro Temboury GBA @temboury Javier Carro Temboury (Madrid, 1997) lives in Paris. His ongoing exhibition cycle "Café Transversal" combines sculpture and performance. Installations are created on-site thanks to social participation. Upcoming events will be soon be shown in Centro de Arte de Alcobendas Madrid and Galeria Campeche, Mexico. Former presentations include notoriously MAMC+ Saint-Etienne, Pech Vienna, Palais d'Iéna, and Villa Belleville, Paris. "Javier Carro Temboury’s first step is research. At flea markets or through random encounters, he starts by collecting ceramic vessels and objects. Questioning their use and utility, bearing the marks of different eras and places, these objects speak, in subtle ways, of the people who held them, touched them, made them, but also of the notion of effort and labour... He questions how, from a distance, we receive and understand the culture of the others. His approach combines both, a conceptual rigour, and sensitiveness towards touch and matter" Text by Marie Maertens 📸 courtesy of the artist and ©️ Tabea Wolf, Salim Santalucia, Augustin Jacob #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #javiercarrotemboury

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Stephen Burke GBA @stefano.bardsley Stephen’s work draws inspiration from the frenzy of city spaces, examining the impact city dwellers have on their environment, giving his work a raw, immediate quality. He explores the contest for public space in these areas, shaped by conflicting interests. The resulting works are exhibited in galleries or in public spaces, engaging audiences in rethinking their surroundings. 📸 courtesy of the artist #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #stephenburke

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Regan Boyce GBA @regan.boyce Regan Boyce is a London-based artist who works in sculpture, print and installation. His work focuses on narratives around the biosphere, through abstract constructions in metal, light and ink, as well as themes of consumerism and manipulation of form . Boyce’s sculptures employ industrial materials, exposed hardware and lighting. Typically angular and geometric, his forms use vibrant colour and engage with the subject of nature and the environment. “Geo” explores the abstraction of natural objects to the point of ambiguity: steel lines playfully interact creating frame constructions and hollow voids. The result is an interplay between interior, exterior and shadow. 📸 courtesy of the artist #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #reganboyce

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Madeleine Ruggi GBA @madeleine.ruggi Madeleine Ruggi is a London-based artist who completed her MFA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Her sculptures, sounds, prints, and installations consider infrastructures of trade that sprawl the globe yet often remain largely unseen by everyday consumers. Using site visits, radio communications, field recordings, and found objects, Ruggi examines dizzying cycles of capital. Small-scale materials—a slice of ship exterior or rubber tyre tread lengths—represent fragments of such industries. Her works explore paths of desire: from the micro-demands of the individual to the macro-constructs of trade and power that form complex systems on which we all, in some way, depend. IMAGE CREDITS: 📸 1 Sarah Ainslie 📸 3 Steven Maybury 📸 5 Rob Harris #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #madeleineruggi

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Yidan Kim GBA @yidan_kim Yidan Kim uses olfactory materials to create sensory imagery, exploring the sense of smell, which is often undervalued in the hierarchy of senses. Through sculptures, installations, and performances, she aims to expand sensory perception and challenge human-centric perspectives, focusing on non-material objects beyond human perception. Kim completed an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2024. She studied Hyang-do, a traditional Korean fragrance ceremony, and researched olfactory object-mediators worldwide. Combining incense-making and fragrance perfumery techniques, she manifests synesthetic olfactory imagery through her art. 📸 courtesy of the artist #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #yidankim

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Lucy Mulholland GBA @lucygm_art Lucy Mulholland (b. 1999) is an artist based in Northern Ireland with a keen interest in the role art plays in exploring post-anthropocentric futures. Her practice investigates connections and exchanges between humans and other species, focusing on actions or gestures that seem insignificant or futile and presenting them as catalysts for potential future action. Working with simple materials like wood, metal, and clay, she employs labour-intensive handcrafting and specialist processes. Responding to our ecological crisis, her work foregrounds speculative imagination, humour, and hope. IMAGE CREDITS: 📸 courtesy of the artist #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #lucymulholland

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Bo-yi Wu GBA @boyiwustudio Boyi (b. 1998) is a London-based artist whose work delves into the complex interplay between nature, technology, and human control. Using fibers from invasive species like Japanese Knotweed, Boyi reveals the contradictions in humanity's attempts to dominate nature. Recently completing his MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2024, he integrates the traditional craft of handmade papermaking—a disappearing technique—into his work, preserving this craft while reimagining its role within contemporary ecological and cultural dialogues. His art transforms these invasive plants into paper, wallpaper, and sculpture, challenging viewers' perceptions of the boundaries between natural and artificial. 📸 courtesy of the artist #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #boyiwu

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Amanda Cornish GBA @amandacornishstudio Amanda Cornish’s work operates at the intersection of spatial theory and material culture, examining how our physical environments shape us. Through an embracement of brokenness, she creates still spaces for regeneration and repair. Working across sculpture, installation, drawing, sound, and text, Cornish sees her works as a collaboration with found objects. Her process begins with the spontaneous encounter, where found items from industrial, domestic, or natural environments act not as passive elements but as agents to provoke a creative dialogue. Through these interactions, she searches for the essence of being, where weathered materials in a state of decay or flux offer paths towards potentiality and stillness. Reoccurring motifs, such as the cylinder or cube, serve as metaphors for the body, while the interior space is seen not as a place of emptiness but of engagement, where the internal world of thought and emotion are inseparable from the external forces of society, nature, and time. IMAGE CREDITS: 📸 5 James Merrell #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #amandacornish

This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2025! Meet Beverley Duckworth GBA @bev.duckworth Working with living sculpture and installation, Beverley creates spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues facing humanity. Her practice centres on the afterlife of the discarded and is rooted in small acts of reparation - sewing scraps together, watering fragile seedlings and nurturing the regenerative power of composting from waste materials. Recent shows include: New Contemporaries, KARST, Plymouth (2024); Minor Attractions with SLQS Gallery, The Mandrake Hotel, London (2024); Entanglements and Denials, Tang Museum, Dongguan, China (2024); Beverley was selected for New Contemporaries (2024) and UK New Artists City Takeover (2022). 📸 courtesy of the artist #gilbertbayesaward #gba2025 #emergingsculptors #beverleyduckworth