LUTECIA

About

Melanie Counsell has built a considerable reputation over almost 20 years for her installations and sculptural interventions that create new psychological environments through the intense manipulation of time and space, architecture and object. Luticea is Melanie Counsell's first solo exhibition in the UK for six years. During this period Counsell's work has undergone an intense period of experimentation that has witnessed the diversification of her distinctive aesthetic to encompass abstract prints and wall paintings, evocative 16mm film and both monumental and intimate, discrete sculpture. Luticea is a woman's name, a carpenter's trestle, a gymnast's beam, a roof strut - an intervention that bridges the space between site — specific intervention and expansive sculpture, between autonomous object and repeated images.