Description
Flowers -Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture- is an exhibition, compromising of over 500 unique artworks and objects, exploring the ongoing influence of flowers on creativity and human expression.
Emma Witter is an artist working intuitively with found and rescued biomass – by-products of London’s restaurant industry or salvaged mud larking on the banks of the river Thames – her sculptures are sensational and beguiling. Witter breathes new life into lost things, and shows us value where we saw only waste.
Bones are Emma Witter’s medium of choice. A passion born by chance in the kitchen while making a stew. And the kitchen, an integral part of her London studio, is still at the heart of her craft because it is there, that she follows a long and meticulous process to prepare the bones that she can then use for her poetical sculptures. “Bone has been used throughout history in manufacturing and design, and my challenge of innovation is to create very beautiful and peaceful objects, that challenge the viewers preconception about the material,” Emma says of her philosophy. “It gives me pleasure when I can change someone’s mind about their fear of bone, or see them make connections to other organic waste products that are also perfectly normal,” explains Emma.
