MONUMENTAL
A MONUMENTAL INSTALLATION BY SOPHIE RYDER
PLAZA, MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE GRAND PALAIS
A talk with the artist will be organized on Thursday 3 April 2025, from 3:00pm to 4:15pm, in the conference space of the fair (Stand B0) with art curator Jon Benington (discussion in English).
Sophie Ryder (b. 1963, London, England) studied Combined Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1981-84, and was the youngest student after JMW Turner to be admitted. Her work has been shown worldwide including: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK; Blickachsen, Germany; Frederik Meijer Sculpture Park, USA; Pilane, Sweden and Salisbury Cathedral, UK. In summer 2023, to celebrate the artist’s 60th year, a series of Sophie Ryder events and exhibitions were held including open air sculpture at RHS Wisley and Chelsea Barracks, UK. The Lightbox gallery and museum in Woking, Surrey hosted a major retrospective entitled All of Us which included over 50 works spanning a career of 30 years.
Jon Benington is a freelance art curator, writer and speaker, grew up in Northern Ireland and is now based in Norwich. For much of his career he was Manager of the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, where he oversaw the development of the permanent collection, all temporary exhibitions and the education programme. Artists he has worked with include Sophie Ryder, Paula Rego, Gillian Ayres, Ana Maria Pacheco, Shani Rhys James, Maggi Hambling, Grayson Perry, Kenneth Armitage, and Howard Hodgkin. Jon’s numerous articles and books on 19th- and 20th-century art include monographs on Sophie Ryder (2001), Roderic O’Conor (1992 and 2018), John Kingerlee (2006), Sir Peter Scott (1989), Clifford and Rosemary Ellis (2018), Peter Brown NEAC (2008) and Barrington Tabb RWA (2006). He also acts as a consultant for many leading auction houses.
- Girl With Knees Up, 2019 & Sitting Minotaur, 2020 - Sophie Ryder
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- Sitting Minotaur - Sophie Ryder, 2020
- Girl With Knees Up - Sophie Ryder, 2019