Cutting wood on a band saw for twenty years, Sophie Dickens uses the particular kinds of curved organic shapes to make her distinctive figurative sculptures.  “The process is incredibly therapeutic.  I like the pieces to look like they are not part of a plank, but have a life of their own, almost like little Brancusi’s.”

She works most days from a random heap of shapes that are scattered about her studio floor, a double garage at the bottom of the Richmond Road in Hackney.  Her dog, known as ‘Fur Bag’ by the concierge of flats nearby, keeps an eye on the proceedings.

She has moved her attention to the individual pieces piled on the studio floor. Enlarged to ten times their original size and fabricated in mild steel plate, these organic forms have been given a life of their own.

This installation is intended to evoke different landscape forms or elements of landscape. Four selected pieces are arranged and re-arranged, working together to create a single hill, a rolling skyline, split granite and ironstone crevices, valleys, that can be walked through and around by the spectator.

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