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    Laura Ford’s “Rag and Bone” is a group of sculptures inspired by characters from the stories of Beatrix Potter.

    Ford works with a variety of materials from fabric and other found objects to more traditional material such as plaster, and in this case bronze. The works themselves, childlike and playful, belie more serious issues as the figures stand out in the cold, homeless and hungry. Some of Potter’s best known characters are set to surprise us; Badger is searching through the dustbin for food; Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, the hedgehog, pushes her laden pram overflowing with all her belongings, Tod, the fox, wrapped in blankets, reminds us all too poignantly of the many homeless sleeping in our cities’ streets.

    The sculptures comment on the parallel worlds that exist in our towns and cities: the sanitized spaces of consumerism and the homeless and disenfranchised who often exist on their margins. By casting characters from Edwardian children’s tales in contemporary urban situations, Ford asks questions about our throwaway culture while the sentimentality of Potter’s original stories is given a far darker undercurrent.

    Laura Ford is one of the foremost female sculptors working in the UK.

    (Source: artrabbit.com)

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