Rebecca Rayner

Sculpture and Installation

Viscous paint and trickling wax, ‘candied’ sponge, palatable yet putrefying sculptural forms, contorted and tied with string- they echo tones of rotting flesh, yet simultaneously are reminiscent of cake- the ambiguity is alluring. 
Rebecca Rayner works with predominantly discarded materials, namely foam and fabric, creating abstract life size forms that she then repeatedly layers in paint, wax and glue. Themes of excess, consumption, objectification and forces of attraction vs repulsion run through her work. Rayner’s hybrid installations are inspired by the Baroque and hint at the abject in relation to beauty and ‘ideals’ concerning this, relating the work to the body, identity and boundaries.