Overview

A major monograph on one of the most accomplished British sculptors of her generation, this publication presents a survey of twenty years of Kate MccGwire's otherworldly sculptures and fantastical installations, exploring the grotesque, the uncanny and the surreal. Kate MccGwire is an internationally renowned British sculptor whose practice revolves around the uncanny. Employing natural materials and in particular, feathers, MccGwire creates arresting, sensuous, otherworldly sculptures and site-specific works, exploring ideas relating to Sigmund Freud's notion of the 'unhomely' and often rendering the familiar strange and disturbing. This major monograph features works spanning her career, from the unsettling fabric and clothing works of the turn of the millennium through to the fantastical site-specific installation and interventions of her solo exhibition in 2020 at Harewood House. In her essay for the publication, independent curator and writer Jane Neal explores themes of childhood and family, nature and the body, physics and metaphysics, opening up connections between MccGwire's works and myths, legends and belief systems across time and cultures. The second essay, by Dr Catriona McAra, an art historian and Curator at Leeds Arts University, explores MccGwire's oeuvre in relation to the history of soft sculpture, abstraction and surrealism. Lavishly illustrated with around 140 images, the publication has been edited by independent curator and writer Mark Sanders and designed and produced by Peter B. Willberg. It is published by Anomie Publishing, London.

Full Product Details

9781910221259

Table of Contents

Reviews

With the inclusion of images taken from her sketchbooks, revealing something of the sculptor’s own thought processes, this is a highly valuable contribution to Anomie Publishing’s series of monographs on the work of contemporary artists. * Art Quarterly 14/06/2021 *

With the inclusion of images taken from her sketchbooks, revealing something of the sculptor's own thought processes, this is a highly valuable contribution to Anomie Publishing's series of monographs on the work of contemporary artists. * Art Quarterly 14/06/2021 *

Author Information

Kate MccGwire is an internationally renowned British sculptor whose practice probes the beauty of the uncanny. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004, her sculptures have been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. In 2018, MccGwire was awarded the Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture by the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Mark Sanders is an independent curator, writer and art consultant based in London. In the 1990s he was the acting Arts Editor for Dazed & Confused and Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Culture for Phaidon Press. He has also edited a number of publications for Booth-Clibborn Editions, Hatje Cantz and Anomie Publishing. Dr Catriona McAra is University Curator at Leeds Arts University. She has published extensively with a particular interest in surrealism and feminist-surrealist legacies in contemporary practice. She is co-editor with Jonathan P. Eburne of 'Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde' (Manchester University Press, 2017). Jane Neal is an independent curator, writer and art consultant based in the UK with a speciality in contemporary painting practice. Recent shows include Introducing 21st Century Women (Unit Gallery, London 2018), Disruptive Imagination (Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre, Hungary, 2017) and A Question of Perspective (Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam 2016).

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available