Ro Robertson
b.1984
Between Two Bodies
2020
Jesmonite, pigment, steel rebar
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society through the Rapid Response Fund, 2020. Image by Nick Singleton.
Ro Robertson’s practice spans sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance, through which they explore the boundaries of the human body and its environment. Between Two Bodies brings together two casts taken from fractures in rocks – one from Bridestones in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, and the other from Godrevy Point at St Ives Bay.
Robertson states that Between Two Bodies ‘connects with my experience of non-binary gender and also with the geographical space between the two works and the idea of being between two bodies of stone or two bodies of water in different places at the same time. They are between the body and the landscape, belonging to both but not overtly recognisable as either.’
This work forms part of a series called Packing comprising three works, all of which are in the Wakefield Permanent Art Collection.
