23/07/2026
Stroud Sensation
Open till Saturday 29th August
Please note the gallery will close tomorrow, Friday 24th July at 2pm, and will reopen Monday 3rd August.
Rachel Howard
Not the last (RSM) 2–6
For this series Rachel Howard transforms everyday plastic flowers, the kind left at graves or roadside memorials, through a process of repetition, gravity and chance. Repeatedly coated in acrylic medium, the flowers are suspended upside down to drip and dry before being cast in bronze, preserving the softened forms in metal.
“Formed from a blend of artifice and chance... creating sculptures that look like they might be bouquets discovered in Pompeii.” — Craig Burnett, St Veronica Reads the News (2018)
Howard’s practice explores the tensions between control and chaos, permanence and fragility, beauty and destruction. In Not the last (RSM) 2-6 these often temporary, familiar objects become contemplative sculptures that suspend time, inviting reflection on memory, loss and transformation.
On view in the gallery.
Not the last (RSM) 2, 2017
(Road Side Memorial)
Bronze
Edition of 5
10.2 x 24.1 x 10.5 cm
Not the last (RSM) 3, 2017
(Road Side Memorial)
Bronze
Edition of 5
12.7 x 29.2 x 7.5 cm
Not the last (RSM) 4, 2017
(Road Side Memorial)
Bronze
Edition of 5
10.2 x 30.5 x 11 cm
Not the last (RSM) 5, 2017
(Road Side Memorial)
Bronze
Edition of 5
11.4 x 25.4 x 9.5 cm
Not the last (RSM) 6, 2017
(Road Side Memorial)
Bronze
Edition of 5
8.9 x 29.2 x 9.5 cm
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