Rebalancing the Abstract - Talking Sculpture Making & Melanie Ahmed
Talking Sculpture Making (TSM) is an exhibiting and discussion forum formed in 2019 by abstract sculptors Gillian Brent (Sheffield), Alexandra Harley (London/Norfolk) and Sheila Vollmer (London). The collective has an established exhibition profile exploring contemporary abstract sculpture, generating dialogue and supporting multi-generational women’s practices in the genre. TSM are fore-fronting the practice of community building as integral to the ongoing feminist repositioning of abstract sculpture, to redress the imbalance resulting from women sculptors’ underrepresentation in the genre. TSM aim to provide a showcase for intergenerational women’s practices and augment their voices.
For this exhibition, TSM invites London and Margate based artist Melanie Ahmed to show with them. Melanie’s paintings and deconstructed painted objects offer a bridge between the more familiar genre of abstract painting and the composition of form, materiality, colour and surface in the works by the TSM sculptors.
Pre-Show Discussion - Rebalancing the Abstract
Join artists Gillian Brent, Alexandra Harley, Sheila Vollmer (Talking Sculpture Making) and Melanie Ahmed for an informal discussion of the work in their exhibition ‘Rebalancing the Abstract’ at Mast.
In this ‘back-to-front’ artist talk, visitors will be invited to share their thoughts about an artwork to encourage a wide-reaching dialogue about how we interact with art, artists and each other.