Denise de Cordova
Lumps of Loveliness
Embroidery thread and paper
Variable elements ranging from 32cm to 7cm
‘Lumps of Loveliness’ are portraits of particularly “attractive” rocks encountered whilst walking alone in remote landscapes.The process is transformative: crumpled sheets of paper are destroyed through excessive stitching, each rock becoming essentially a large darn or repair, where damage becomes a beautiful, possessive continuous surface of loveliness and love.
Denise de Cordova
Denise de Cordova trained in sculpture at Brighton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, and was awarded a Rome Scholarship in 1983. She was the Henry Moore Foundation Fellow at Camberwell School of Art in 1984, and a Stanley Picker Fellow in 1990. In 2006 she became a Fellow at the Royal College of Art , where she teaches on the Sculpture Programme. Her current research centres on ideas of embodied landscape, making sculptural tableaux or mise en scène installations as visual love letters to place.
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