Mary Ramsden tells us about her moving new project
Ramsden, who studied at Royal Academy Schools in London and is represented by Pilar Corrias and Wentrup , has spent her career using paint almost exclusively. In, she leans into a range of materials, including wood and metal, which introduce a more sculptural quality. Each piece was created with the intention of capturing the essence of their namesakes – the friends she missed so dearly – though Ramsden is not comfortable with them being labelled abstract portraits.
Ramsden spent two lockdowns in central London and another in rural North Yorkshire. In between studio time, she was reading voraciously – poetry, essays, fiction – and became increasingly preoccupied with making connections with those whose words she read. “I fired up exchanges with writers who were grappling with concerns close to my own. As these conversations developed and became more dynamic, I felt it was important to find a way to house these dialogues side by side,” she says.
The featured writing ranges from notes, to short poems, to long passages of fiction. In particular, she cites Daisy Hildyard’s words on shamanic behaviours as “a very rich parallel to my process and the solitary – but also, at times, performative – activity in the studio”. Similarly, Ramsden says that the poetry submitted by both Rebecca Tamás and Genevieve Stevens echoed the abbreviated language used in her own work.
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