“Artist Carole Pearson is a searcher, drawn to idiosyncratic materials and the possibilities of their myriad combinations. On the day I visited her studio, high on the hills of Bath, her workbenches were overflowing with intriguing objects. She collects, sifts, edits, combines, and re-combines these materials and objects to create her sculptures.

Those materials that make it into the mix are carefully chosen for their texture and tone, and their behaviour both alone and in combination. Diverse industrial materials such as expanding foam, wire wool and glycerine play their part as do natural materials including cork, beeswax and myrrh. Low value, readily available things: paper, plasticine, cardboard and PVA glue bump shoulders with more usual sculptural materials such as brass, copper and porcelain.”

Fiona Cassidy, Curator