Rebecca Newnham FRSS

Glass plays a significant role in Rebecca Newnham's work. The sculpture is concerned with the natural and botanical world and scientific ideas about how it functions.  

The glass skin is painted with glass enamel and then fired to make it permanent. The colours cannot fade as they become intrinsic. The surface is then cut up and collaged, literally wrapping the painting around curved forms, playing with pixels of the image and facets of refracted light.

The structure of sculptures for the interior is created in timber and for exterior work,  stainless steel with a marble dust render.

The Rise sculptures are a series of works developing from an interest in how matter and energy moves. They are an attempt to reflect our grasp of the laws of physics which govern our understanding of the world. These forms expand from waves of energy ascending from the earth into space, whether waves are electromagnetic, heat or sound or waves of communication through water or air.