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> Rosemary Terry is a sculptor and part time lecturer at Wolverhampton University, in the Fine Art department. "I’m from London originally," she says. "I studied in Norwich and did an M.A at Birmingham. I’ve been here [Eagle Works] for about 20 years, I did previously have studios in Manchester and Cambridge.
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"I’ve always been a carver. I used to carve stone, now I carve wood. I carve quite large monumental scale objects, vessels, containers… usually to do with interiors… kitchen-like spaces. "Recently I made an installation called Nocturne which is a kitchen interior, with a large kitchen table with objects on it. A window, a shelf with a pot on it, with a projected image of the moon which moved in real time across the objects, creating strange shadows and eclipses on the wall behind. It’s mostly constructed or carved wood with the addition of projected light or video to create a strange alternative world. "I’m interested in the combination of very solid, still things with movement and light – so it’s like the collision of two worlds really. An outside world which is alive and moving and coloured and an interior world which is quite often static and still and what happens when you put those two things together. "It’s either a wall between nature and civilisation or it is the idea of outside illumination almost flooding into the space. So that in the Nocturne piece, instead of having moonlight projected on the wall, you’ve actually got the moon itself travelling at its own speed across a screen. "We all know that with global warming and everything, we’re destroying the world we are living in, but I’m quite interested in looking at how nature can get its own back at us, I’m trying to explore the interaction between nature and human beings and quite where that boundary is and how nature works with us or against us, according to what we do, I suppose. "I had an exhibition here [Eagle Works] in May, where I was experimenting with an installation. There is some of my work on display at the sensing sculpture exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, although that’s from an earlier phase, really. I have got work in collections. "I’ve done quite a lot of public commissions, I’ve got work over in the International Sculpture Symposia, Lake Vyrnwy, Wales. "Fairly recently I’ve done a commission for Centro in Birmingham, for their bus information points. "I want to continue with this creating videos and combining with sculpture and making installations, and finding better venues to show them in, around the country. | 
