Veronica Ryan, “Multiple Conversations III”, 2019-2021, plastic, custard apple seeds and ink, 3.8 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm ⋆ Montserrat/UK ⋆ https://alisonjacques.com/artists/veronica-ryan #VeronicaRyan #contemporaryart #abstractart #abstractsculpture #feministart #conversations #seeds #Montserratianartists #Caribbeanartists #Montserrat #WindwardAntilles #2010s

#VeronicaRyan I find this work particularly compelling for the way it claims the public space of the horizontal (following a familiar approach in sculpture from the 70s and 80s) but in its materiality, colour and intrigue -- what's an artefact, what's a cast -- asserts an uneasy balance between the sculptor's urge to shape, create and reconfigure, with the need to recognise the presence and forms of life in the world that are already and always shaping themselves.