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Rosalie Wammes (1988) creates sculptures, often in ceramics. She has a background as a musician and trained at a theatre academy before further developing her visual art practice. Musical and performative elements now frequently form part of her artistic work.
Wammes approaches her sculptures as characters within a narrative, in which each sculptural form relates to the others. The origin of the materials plays a key role in her work: in Dragen, tillen, vertrekken, slijten (2026), she combines ceramics with (sub-)fossil oak wood recovered from an eighteenth-century shipwreck. The work centres on dynamics of carrying, falling, supporting, weight and connection, inspired by shifting relationships within her family. Two suspended ceramic-and-wood sculptures are connected via pulleys to three ceramic elements on the ground, anchored by a lead core – as if forming a heavy heart.
Wammes experiments with the upper limits of ceramic firing temperatures in order to influence the colour and tactile qualities of the clay. A sculpture sometimes breaks, and she reassembles it into a new whole. As a result, themes of support, repair and connection are not only present in the final work, but are embedded in its formation. Through her ‘music letter’ – an audio interpretation of a newsletter – Wammes shares her research and working process with visitors. Linked to a QR code in the exhibition, it allows the artist to offer a musical insight into her processes.
Written by Kelly-ann van Steveninck