Great Wings Beating

For close to three decades, artist Heather B. Swann has been obsessed with myths, museums and haberdashery. Maintaining a prolific practice spanning drawing, sculpture and installation, Swann’s work is exquisitely hand-crafted, symbolically poetic and steeped in intense emotion. A dark yet graceful elegance streams through her work, with each piece encapsulating the push and pull of pleasure and pain, and strength and vulnerability.

Well known for creating monochromatic sculptural objects stylistically recalling leather furniture, animals and opera costumes, a key feature