JODIE CAREY
Jodie Carey is a British artist, educated at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art (2007). Exhibiting internationally (Berlin, Chicago, New York, Amsterdam), she frequently shows at Edel Assanti in central London. In 2015, she was shortlisted for Women to Watch by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington.
‘Over the past decade, Jodie Carey has explored the universal human urge to make an impression on our surroundings. Through site-responsive sculptural installations, Carey’s practice adopts culturally universal, age-old artistic methods of creation, often evoking ritualistic or primitive traditions. Through revisiting these techniques, her oeuvre emphasises the relationship between object making and commemoration, whilst also looking to the physical world as a repository of material memory, silently registering the passage of time…’ (text courtesy of Edel Assanti from her 2019 exhibition)
‘I’m very interested in ideas of ageing and memory, time passing and that shadowy boundary between forgetting and remembering. Forests are quite primordial elemental landscapes and they speak about the passage of time - there’s a kind of perpetual bond between past, present and future. In recent years, in my practice I’ve been really exploring a process of stripping back, so, taking things away. Much of my earlier works used to be very decorative and ornamental but I’ve been working to strip things back … relying solely on very simple, basic processes to make objects - carving, weaving or drawing directly on the wall, and using very basic materials – wood, timber or hessian to make materials.’ From: a studio interview by Edel Assanti for her exhibition Earthcasts in 2017
‘Stand is Carey’s most recent exploration of the potential of cast and carved plaster to create forms rich in their signification of the natural world – and of human rituals, particularly those associated with death and memorialization.’ From: ‘Earthcasts’ by John Paul Stonard in Frieze magazine 2017 on Carey’s installation Stand
Image: Exhibition view at Edel Assanti, London, 2019
Image: Sea, 2018 The Foundling Museum, London
Image: Studio interview for the exhibition Earthcasts at Edel Assanti in 2017
Image: Earthcasts at Edel Assanti 2017
Image: Cord, 2019 Frieze Sculpture, London
Image: Cord, 2019 Frieze Sculpture, London
Image: Exhibition view at Edel Assanti 2019