Beate Leonards, Germany

Vase
2020
Tombac (gilding metal)
210 × 210 × 200 mm

A creative response to Vase by Dean Kissick

The faster they went the more clearly they felt. The faster they span. With the wind in their hair, and the churning in their organs, their angles, now arcs. Life was a hall of mirrors and they were a face forever spinning round. Once a day they rang like a bell. When they were dizzy they made sure not to show.

Metalwork artist Beate Leonards studied at Hanau’s Staatliche Zeichenakademie and went on to work with Georg Jensen and Allan Scharff in Copenhagen. She completed her master’s in 1997 and opened her own studio in 1999 in Lübeck. She has held solo exhibitions across Germany and her work forms part of permanent, public collections in the Museum for Applied Art in Berlin and Frankfurt.