Sensuality in Stone

'Sensuality in Stone' is an intimate London exhibition showing stone sculptures by four strong female artists. Having met at On Form, the biannual stone sculpture show at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire, all four women learned that they shared a passion for communicating the sensuality they feel is inherent in stone.

Aly Brown is a master at producing pieces of fluid, dynamic plasticity which yet remain attached to their natural origin. ‘I love creating forms which partially emerge from the block of stone. They have life, yet they remain attached to their natural origin: almost embryonic. Looking for the inherent potential and colours in the stone, my female forms create a sensuality which appeals to both male and female collectors.' Aly Brown

Kim Francis has long been passionate about the carving process, self taught through exploring her passion and materials as diverse as wood, and snow, she discovered stone. The inherent integrity and nobility of this material remains her great love. She has a deep appreciation for creating and discovering the living forms hidden within this ancient material, always inviting touch.

Mel Fraser has been carving in stone for over thirty years, her body of work is a diverse and multifaceted, carving ethereal abstract and entrancing figurative works, each laden with profound symbolic significance. She possesses an innate ability to interpret the unique idiosyncrasies of each piece of stone carving it into diaphanous veils of rippling alabaster, or conjuring a gleaming nimbus from within the rock itself. Fraser expertly probes at limits of the physical properties of stone to the brink of destruction, examining form, space and materiality with an earnest and palpable curiosity.

Ana Ruiz Agüí seeks through conceptual and abstract sculpture to manifest the beauty of the stone, the dynamics of the curves and the contrasts between different textures. She wants to create sculpture with character, without getting lost in detail, allowing the material to speak for itself and to breathe. She is looking for a synthesis of complexity with cadence and harmony.