Virginia Overton’s Untitled (chime for Caro) (2022) is a large scale interactive kinetic sculpture, constructed from offcuts of steel belonging to Anthony Caro that he deposited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park for use by future generations of sculptors. Overton spent time at Yorkshire Sculpture Park sorting through Caro’s steel, selecting pieces she could assemble into new compositions or pair with other materials “to make a conversation between the two”. Here, Overton hangs these heavy steel remnants across a large A-frame gantry, pairing each with a hollow aluminium pipe, which when activated by viewers or the wind dissipates the heaviness of the material into the lightness of sound waves, allowing the work to reach beyond its own physical parameters.

Overton’s work is in dialogue with a long line of sculptors including Caro but is distinguished by her intuitive and experimental approach to making in response to specific places and materials. Growing up on a farm in Lebanon, Tennessee she has a sensitivity to land and the intrinsic energy of materials, which she collects and creates into sculptures and installations, some of which she repurposes for the next work.

About Virginia Overton

Virginia Overton (b.1971, Nashville, US) holds a BFA and MFA from the University of Memphis, Tennessee. Recent solo exhibitions include Landcraft Garden Foundation, Mattituck, New York (2023); Hypermaremma, Orbetello, Italy (2023); Frist Art Museum, Nashville (2022); Goldsmiths CCA, London, The Mill, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine (2022); White Cube Hong Kong (2020); Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, Memphis, Tennessee (2018), Westfälischer Kunstverein Jahresgaben, Munster, Germany, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona (2017); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2016) and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2013). Group exhibitions include The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2022); The Ranch, Montauk, New York (2021); Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London (2020); FRONT Triennial, Cleveland, (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2016); High Line, New York in 2012 and 2014, Storm King Art Center, New York 2014. Her work is held in numerous collections internationally including Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Tennessee Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona The Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Stiftung GegenwART, Bern, Switzerland Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Zabludowicz Collection, London. Addditional commissions and public works include those at LaGuardia Airport, New York; Celine, Paris, Untitled (cascade), Goldsmiths CCA, London; Untitled (HILUX), Art Basel (Parcours), Storm King Art Center, ALL RISE, Seattle, Washington; Pier 54, High Line Art, New York; Change of State, Projection on the Façade of the New Museum, New York Memphis, TN Social, billboard at Monroe and Marshall, Memphis, Tennessee; R4, in association with FIAC, Ile Seguin, Paris, Frieze Projects, Randall’s Island, New York; Off the Grid, Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tennessee. She is represented by White Cube and she lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

About The Artist’s Garden

theCOLAB is an independent women-led collaborative laboratory working to bring together people, land and art by realising artists’ most far-flung and life-affirming work in response to places beyond the confines of the white cube for the public. The Artist’s Garden transformed the neglected half acre rooftop on Temple tube station into a vast free public sculpture garden to give women artists the opportunity to make their first, early or greatest outdoor sculptural intervention to promote greater appreciation of their work in public. The annual programme comprises major and smaller scale commissions and theCOLAB/Royal College of Art/Yorkshire Sculpture Park Graduate Award residency. theCOLAB is a registered charity. www.thecolab.art / @thecolab.art

MARY MARY and The Artist’s Garden is realised in partnership with and supported by Westminster City Council and private philanthropists with support from the British Council’s Connections Through Culture Grant for Rong Bao’s Yellow Path and with the kind permission of LUL/Transport for London. With thanks to WSP UK, Frieze 91 and Mezcal Reina for their support.

For more information, images or to arrange an interview please contact Mary Doherty / mary@sam-talbot.com and visit www.thecolab.art