To coincide with our latest Curators' Day video interview series, this month we look at the work of Irish-born Collection artist Eva Rothschild, whose exhibition, The Shrinking Universe, is currently on show at the Irish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Eva Rothschild was born in Dublin in 1971, and lives and works in London. One of the leading sculptors of her generation, Rothschild’s work demonstrates a great awareness of the modernist tradition while maintaining its own distinctive sculptural language. Her works also engage with signifiers and objects from her surrounding urban environment, and the eternal forms of geometry and classicism. Her sense of materials, scale, monumentality, colour and line reflect a refined aesthetic sensibility that redeploys and subverts familiar sculptural formats.
She has undertaken large-scale commissions for Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries (2009) and Public Art Fund, New York (2011). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2018); The New Art Gallery, Walsall (2016-17); The Hugh Lane, Dublin (2014); Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas (2012); Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover (2011); South London Gallery, London (2007); and the Kunstalle Zürich, Zürich (2004). Rothschild’s 2011 solo Hot Touch was the inaugural exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield.
The Arts Council Collection currently holds two works by Rothschild: Heavy Cloud, 2003 and Your Weakness, 2004 (pictured), which was shown as part of Occasional Geometries, a National Partners exhibition guest curated by artist Rana Begum.
