Exhibition: Rowena Dring and Nike Savvas
The Garden That You Planted
Rowena Dring and Nike Savvas
Feb – Apr 2010
St Barts Hospital Gallery and The Royal London Hospital Gallery
Vital Arts is delighted to announce the opening of the exhibition ‘The Garden That You Planted’ at Barts and the London, opening 12th February 2010. The show features a collaborative, site specific project from international artists Rowena Dring and Nike Savvas.
Dring and Savvas met at Goldsmiths College of Art in 1996 and over the last decade their friendship has seen them become increasingly intuitive to each others work. ‘The Garden That You Planted’ is inspired by experiences that the artists shared in France in summer 2009.
For the Royal London Hospital, Rowena and Dring have created In Towers and Clouds, which is a complex partnership of elements from each artist interlinked to create a new highbred of stunning and harmonious landscape images inspired from the Japanese Floating World prints, where clouds part to reveal the world hidden behind them.
Barts Hospital will display Sliding Ladders from Nike Savvas a site specific sculpture series depicting the landscape and the visual experience of walking in the forest and viewing negative spaces in between the leaves. Dring will create a large landscape piece that inter-plays realism with abstraction, taking the viewer directly to the scene that she illustrates.
Rowena Dring was born in Wellingborough in 1970. She gained her BA at Chelsea College of Art in 1993, and her MA at Goldsmiths College in 1998. She currently lives and works in France. Dring has been working with Vital Arts over the last five years on various commissions for the hospital including the Award Winning Barts Breast Care Centre and the Barkentine Health Centre.
Nike Savvas was born in Sydney, Australia in 1964. After receiving her Bachelors in Visual Arts in 19898 from the Sydney College of Arts, she went on to study at Goldsmiths College in 1996. She currently splits her time between London and Sydney.
