de Courcy, Sally

Sally’s work aims at challenging our perception of ourselves, our fragility and strength. It explores the positive and negative aspects of the human behaviour, and the subsequent impact on us and the environment. Her sculptures evolve by manipulating multiple cast objects so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Bones, representing mortality and vulnerability and provocative objects are combined in her sculptures to confront difficult or uncomfortable subjects, that express our shared human experiences.
Repetition emphasises the subject and creates visual impact, the decorative outcome disguises darker themes of human flaws and influences, that when revealed create dissonance. The sum like an optical puzzle, oscillates between beauty and nightmare, exploring the liminal space between conscious representation and unconscious influence.