Grace Gershinson

Grace Gershinson, a London based artist b.2000, explores the relationship between natural matter, time and form. Interested in the seesaw of nature’s passage of time and its fossilisation, she believes that what we are attracted to or repelled by is revealing of our unconscious processing and speaks to our personal inner experience. Using found natural objects as a basis of investigation she treats them as artefacts. Her personal attachment with these objects is used as a starting point to explore the dynamic limitlessness of time and nature. Interested in their texture, shape and symbolic meaning, she seeks to manipulate the original form to mimic biomorphic themes of ever-changing growth and the rhythm of repetition. Her work plays on the stillness and mutability of nature. By pushing the relationship between movement, mass, and buoyancy to abstract what once was, this leaves room to question what can be. Sandwiched in fascination between the ephemeral and the perpetual qualities of the natural world, she seeks to capture forms in the middle ground of familiarity and unfamiliarity. By abstracting her chosen objects in a multitude of different ways she embraces different perceptions of the forms origin and new interpretation. She hopes to reflect on nature’s fluctuant growth by bringing them to a static stance through sculpture.