Julie Cuthbert

www.jcuthbert.com
Instagram: @juliecuthbert

I sculpt in metal using both new and existing materials.  I am conscious of an object’s previous use and how I am at once subverting that and giving it a new lease of life. Many of my sculptures are kinetic, to be experienced in nature, in changing light, weather and seasons.

I found this steel girder, half sticking out of the ground on Moverons farm, located directly across the river from Fingringhoe, where I was artist in residence. It had been left behind from the gravel workings that had taken place there years before. It was retrieved for me with a tractor and as soon as it was lifted into the air, the shape of the curve turned it into a bird of prey.

I wanted to exhibit this sculpture here, as Fingringhoe Wick also has a history of gravel workings, evident in the structures left behind as you walk around the Reserve; the preservation of this unique landscape is also home to the Marsh Harrier.