Rosie Leventon makes sculptural installations, for both indoors and outdoors, using a broad variety of materials from human hair to recycled central heating pipes. Her work is radical, original and quite interesting.
Some of Leventon’s installations comprise radical interventions into the interior architecture of a building. She has constructed false floors that float on water and which shift under foot. Her outdoor installations sometimes highly ambitious in scale often have a functional, regional element, providing water for animals, for example, or promoting biodiversity and regeneration.
What initiated my interest in Rosie Leventon’s artwork – mainly because of my passion for books – is her sculpture installations made by paperback books.
Somewhere a door slammed…,2009
A tower of books, with windows that people can look through to see the interior which is only the pages of the paperbacks that have been worked on.
A Long Way from the Bathroom 2, 1996
All the books were of the Barbara Cartland type.. romantic novels, which were glued and carved to from the central void.
