Ros Burgin combines her love of sculpture with a compulsion to express her feelings about environmental causes. In this episode, she talks about how a previous career on sailing ships first gave her a direct experience of pollution and climate change, how sculpture for her is object and material based, how water emerged as a key area of her practice, the types of found materials she uses, the ingenuity behind recontextualising them, how female equality is another concern and how a recent trip to the Arctic icecap has inspired a future series of works.

Ros Burgin talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

Lifelines

Another Country (with detail) made from fishing net rollers and cable ties

Migration, made from shuttlecocks

Away with Words, made from the “list of works” books for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Skylines, made from escalator handrails and containing the names of female pilots

All images are © Ros Burgin

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial