WAVE

source: highlike

Work: Wave Sculpture. We were lucky enough to have the first beautiful sunny day for quite some time for the installation of WAVE our 15 metre floating sculpture for a Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which was featured on the BBC. WAVE commissioned by Peter Roberts of The Himalayan Gardens & Sculpture Park was installed on the 15th of April Nr Ripon, North Yorkshire, and opens to the public from the 27th April. WAVE considers the invisible information, which surrounds us, such as phone signals and TV frequencies. Rebecca explained “The sculpture is red because that’s the most comparable wavelength to WAVE in the colour spectrum, so we are linking visible and invisible information in one sculpture. This shade of red had been chosen for this particular lake”. WAVE is made from fibreglass with a concealed stainless steel structure and weights, which ensures the buoyant sculpture floats at the desired height. These weights ensure the structure rights itself however strong the wind and water current. The sections are chained together and anchored at either end, which allows the wind to draw the sculpture into different curves. FLEDGE; INCREMENTS OF FLIGHT will be exhibited for two days only, as part of Arts in Motion, organised by Kinetic Bournemouth at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, starting today, May 11th, hope to see you there. The Garden Gallery, Broughton, is opening today for the summer season. We have LOTUS EDITION there this year. We will be at both shows today. LAUNCH our 2.2m tall cold cast bronze is all ready for the summer exhibition at Fresh Air 2013 at Quennington from June 16th to July 7th. Debut Contemporary in Notting Hill, London are now representing us!. SOAR (currently on show at Debut Contemporary) has been recast in a new material developed by Rebecca that includes glass and an acrylic modified concrete. The two cast editions will be finished in black and white, and join the bronze edition. DANCERS 3.5m tall. The study of two figures entwined has finally been installed in the MGM Aria Casino, and has been enthusiastically endorsed by the people of Las Vegas. The Artists Collecting Society now represent us on the secondary market. We have also signed up with Bridgeman Artist Copyright Services who will represent us with regard to commercial image usage.
Photographer: David Bird
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source: themaking

Hampshire-based artist Rebecca Newnham makes dramatic large-scale, botanically inspired sculptures. She started work as a blown glass artist, but as her pieces have grown in scale she has changed the way she works, using glass as a decorative skin applied, mosaic style, to a carved base. The result is a series of giant structures in which form, space, light and the reflective qualities of glass play an equal role.
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source: debutcontemporary

Wave – a new 15 metre floating installation by critically acclaimed sculptor and Debut Artist Rebecca Newnham, will go on show for the first time at the award-winning 20-acre Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park, near Ripon in North Yorkshire.

The sculpture is being positioned in one of the lakes at the gardens on April 15th ready for the opening day of the Himalayan Gardens 2013 season on April 27th.

“Wave is about the increasing amount of invisible information which surrounds us such as phone signals and TV frequencies,” said Rebecca. “The sculpture is red because that’s the most comparable wavelength to Wave in the colour spectrum, so we are linking visible and invisible information in one sculpture. This shade of red has been chosen especially for this particular lake.

We trial floated the sculpture in a swimming pool and also in the sea at Mudeford Bay in Dorset where it was received enthusiastically; people have given it names such as Red Ribbon and Nessie which is great. Art should be enjoyed at many levels and when an exhibit gets its own nickname then you know it’s having an impact.”

Wave is made from red fibreglass with a concealed stainless steel structure and weights which ensure the buoyant sculpture floats at the desired height. These weights ensure the structure rights itself however strong the wind or water current.The sections are chained together and anchored either end which allows the wind to draw the sculpture into different curves. The paint has UV protection in it to ensure the colour remains vibrant. In addition to Wave, other new features for 2013 will include a Chinese pagoda made in Bali from an authentic old Chinese design and a thatched summer house built by Henry & Julius Caesar – the leading makers of rustic summer houses in the early 20th century.

Peter Roberts, the owner and founder of the gardens, said: “Wave is certainly the most challenging exhibit we have installed and brings another powerful visual element to the gardens. We also carried out extensive replanting in some of the valleys and created a new rockery.”

The award-wining gardens, which attract some 10,000 visitors annually, are widely considered to have the North’s largest collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias. There are nearly 20,000 plants including some 1,400 rhododendron varieties – of which 70 different species are on the current international Red List of plants threatened with extinction – along with 250 azalea varieties and 150 different magnolias.