Ghada Amer

Suzy, 2021

Ghada Amer's 'Suzy' and 'Dripping Jenny' from 2021 are from a series of flat sculptures in bronze which play with shadow and perspective and bear striking parallels to her well-known drip paintings. They were cast in South Africa’s Workhorse Bronze Foundry and have been realised as ‘drawings in space’ – a technique that the artist developed during a residency in 2017 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. The technique involves moulding with clay before the work is cast in bronze. For Amer, this was an essential period of training that allowed her to master the process of moulding large sculptures: “I wanted to learn how to paint with clay so that I could portray women in my sculptures as expressively as I do in my painting.”