Rebecca Warren

Born in Pinhoe, Exeter in 1965, Rebecca Warren is a British artist who primarily works in painted bronze, raw clay and welded steel sculpture. Her evocative, voluptuous forms teeter between figuration and abstraction, often alluding to the female body through art historical archetypes such as ancient fertility goddesses, prim ballerinas and cartoon characters. The rough texture of her works’ surfaces expose their own sculptural process, retaining the marks of building up and shaping material.

Warren studied at Goldsmiths College and then earned her MFA from the Chelsea College of Art in 1993, and she still lives and works in London today. Her sculptures nod to the organic, bodily shapes of Louise Bourgeois and the textured figures of Auguste Rodin and Alberto Giacometti. In 2006, Warren was nominated for the Turner Prize. She has had solo exhibitions at important institutions such as the Kunstverein Munich and the Serpentine Gallery, and she has also presented her work internationally at the Venice Biennale, Art Institute of Chicago and Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

-       Main Feeling, 2009, Painted bronze, 114 x 30 x 28 inches (289.56 x 76.2 x 11.02 cm), featured in the ArtForum review of the artist's exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago