Virginia Overton: Paintings

The American artist Virginia Overton returns to Mason’s Yard with a new body of work that continues her exploration of spatial relationships between architecture, sculpture and the body.

Overton’s practice involves salvaging and recycling materials, harnessing their inherent properties to reveal the ‘natural push and pull’ embedded within them. Through acts of physical intervention, Overton engages with and teases out the ‘material-ness’ of her objects; often cutting, stacking, suspending, bending, looping, balancing, wedging or hammering them into forms that respond intuitively to the context of their chosen space. For the artist, discarded or abandoned objects offer a mine of possibilities. Foregrounding notions of new and old, Overton’s sculptures act as markers of their own histories – reflecting both their artistic legacies and functional origins – while simultaneously proposing future possibilities that open new pathways for association.