Juliette Bigley

Juliette Bigley is a sculptor who uses base and precious
metals to explore how we experience our emotional and physical place in
the world and how we negotiate the interface between the physical world
that surrounds us and the intangible worlds of emotion, belief, thought,
language and memory. Focussing particularly on lines and thresholds,
Juliette's work is sculptural and often comprises groups of objects.

Talking about this work Juliette said, “I had envisaged making this piece with a cone and not a hemisphere. Making cones is so satisfying, but when it came down to it, the piece did not feel like it needed to: cones speak of movement, a transition from one form to another but, with the twist rising up and out of the wall, there just too much movement and not enough rest. Instead, we have a hemisphere – a form that speaks of holding if ever there was one – and I think this brings a holding out of the green component as well which becomes a protective arm, giving balance, sharing support. The colours do the same for me: the rich green, the auburn (exactly a shade of hair for which I pine) holding their own, but also cleaving together."