Ros Lemoh

About the work

‘Catch the sun’ shows a yellow ladder with an inverted translucent staircase above, hovering in the expanse of the lake water. This large scale sculpture uses ideas from Surrealism where dream-like imagery transformed everyday things, transporting them into imagined landscapes. The jagged steps of the staircase draw from the iconic industrial sawtooth roofline used in the mid-nineteenth century to allow more light for factory workers on the floors below before electricity was more common. Towering like a temple in the reflective water, this abstract industrial imaginary responds to our human need to capture the intangible lucid quality of light.

 

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About the artist

Rosalind Lemoh is a Sierra Leonean/ Australian artist working on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri Country in regional NSW.  Rosalind’s work combines found objects and casting using industrial materials such as concrete, aluminium and bronze. Her work is gritty, and experimental, focusing on the balance of gravity that explores the translation of the physical weight of objects as emotional weight.  Graduating from the ANU School of Art with First Class Honours in 2007, Rosalind has gone on to be a national finalist in contemporary art awards and she has been supported internationally through the Spanish Cultural Cooperation travelling scholarship and been selected to exhibit at Art Rooms London and Tokyo Art Fair (2016) which showcased international talent from around the world. In 2023/24 Rosalind was the Artist in Residence at the Canberra Glassworks.