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Ryan, at work at Spike Island, uses myriad materials, from bronze and clay to fruit skins and tea bags
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Veronica Ryan was born in Plymouth on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1956, but her family moved to the UK when she was an infant. She now lives between Hertfordshire in the UK and New York. Her sculpture evades easy categorisation: it is non-figurative but associative, combining personal and cultural references while drawing on a wide variety of materials and techniques.
Over the years Ryan has worked with tropical fruit, feathers and dust, dyeing and embroidering a wide variety of fabrics, carving marble, stitching together fruit skins, casting in plaster, bronze and clay, crocheting fishing lines and arranging found and fabricated objects on industrial storage shelving. After a number of high-profile shows in the 1980s and early 1990s, she went off the art world radar “I think there was a sense that making abstract work wa ....

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