Rosanna Dean

Rosanna’s practice explores a relationship with discarded materials around us, remnants of actions and things we have consumed, traces of the past that are never really left behind us. Rosanna uses materials such as broken glass, shells, hair, bones, twigs, sand, fragments, things which were once attached to a living entity, and brings them to our attention through new configurations.

Alongside these reconfigurations she places sculptures that are at an intersection with technology, magic and myth-making, objects she imagines as future relics, what icons of a future spiritual practice may be. Her practice is led by instilling importance into these objects by experiencing with them, in rhythm with natures cycles, through movement, breath and attention; her work explores rituals that engage with ancient practices as a way of re-forging intimate relationships with 'inanimate matter' and reframing how we consider liveliness.