“Ryan works at home, where she fills her workspace with the sound of Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Quartet For the End of Time’ uses materials such as fishing line, flowers, bronze and clay to distil big ideas into playful forms.”
At the time, the Hackney artwork ignited discussion. Public statues had already become a contentious issue. The previous year a monument to slave trader Edward Colston was torn down by protesters in Bristol; the same month Ryan’s fruits were unveiled, Art UK released a study revealing that there were more statues of animals than of named women or people of colour in London.
“I didn’t want to opt for a monolith,” she explains, maintaining that the work still holds meaning to the generation it honours. “At my opening an elder came up and gave me a christophine that he grew on his allotment. That was a special moment, because he’s a generation who would not necessarily have gone into any gallery.”
Ryan’s speech quickens when she talks about fruit, reeling off snapshots of her youth. Most of the “fascinating” moments are from trips back to Montserrat, starting when she was eight, where women in the market would twist and flip the bright, hot and sweet produce in brown bags, almost creating their own sculptures. Her mother taught her which plants could be used as shampoo. She played among the mammoth mango trees.
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