NEW: Reflections on the Deep Sea (click and open)

Bierenbroodspot: ‘In the fields near my Tuscany studio, I found half-buried rolls of thin lead sheets. I rubbed and cleaned them until the sheets were as shiny as the sea and sparkling like a mirror. They almost begged me to paint on them so I did, feeling my way into a new medium, engraving lines deep in the metal and attaching found objects and stiffened leaves from Ginkgo biloba trees. I’ve made something entirely new, three-dimensional paintings behind museum glass for a double reflection as if beneath the sea’.

‘Travelling after the pandemic to Sardinia and Sicily, I collected Triton shells. Emptied of their inhabitants long ago, some had floated down to sandy beds in underwater caves, where I found them. I started drawing the shells and putting them into new waters on the lead, and then I made moulds in clay of two magnificent tritons and worked into the clay intricacies of decoration that are (and aren’t) whatever the tritons were. Both are now cast in bronze and touched with gold. I designed for them steel standards on which they can turn at the touch of a finger to explore them from all sides and inside’.