Wells Art Contemporary.

Rosie Leventon ( FRSS) will be showing a glass installation in the cloisters garden at Wells Cathedral

-Leventon designed this cone like structure in glass and aluminium as “ an easily portable

movable personal space”. With resonances of the tepee of the Plains Indians, Light

Sleeper uses aluminium poles fastened together at the top, their bases spread out as a

frame on which are hung hundreds of small sheets of glass connected with wire. For

Leventon glass holds a strange quality: “It seems to be simultaneously there but scarcely

visible, like water that has solidified.” The quasi-pyramidal shape allows energy to

accumulate for the user, and provides a perceptual space that hovers between reality and

imagination. This indeed is the subtext of this glass tent. It is designed to promote a

meditation on vulnerability and on the illusion of solidity and permanence in life, one of the

continuing themes in Leventon’s work.-

from the book by michael freeman. Meditative Spaces. UNIVERSE PUBLISHING ISBN 0

– 7893 - 1353 - 7

Date

20 Jul - 11 Aug

Times

Open daily 9 - 4.30

Address

Wells cathedral., Cathedral Green. Wells. Somerset. BA5 2UE, Wells BA5 2UE

Tickets from

Free

Contact

01749 672773