In The Eyes of Others. 2009. Plaster, steel, cardboard boxes, newspaper. Dimensions variable. Each chandelier: 400cm x 200 cm

Last summer JODIE CAREY has created for Towner gallery three chandeliers constructed from plaster cast human bones and hanging from the ceiling of the gallery. Each chandelier is 3.5 metres high and weigh over a tonne.

For this latest monumental work, she also has considered how the visitor will come in to the gallery and make their way through walled pathways created by newspapers piled high. She has planned the cool temperature and the low light and this is where they will discover her chandelier :” I want there to be a feeling of amazement when they stumble into this clearing“.

JODIE CAREY plays on the perception that traditional memorials have an opposite effect on their intent: “Quite a lot of the time people say my work is about death, but it’s not just about death, it’s about life and how fragile human life is. That confronts you with your own mortality and it hopefully makes you think.”

She is represented by Galerie Gabriel Rolt, The Netherlands.