Veronica Ryan: 'I don't know anyone who makes art for art's sake'
Ryan, at work at Spike Island, uses myriad materials, from bronze and clay to fruit skins and tea bags © Max McClure Veronica Ryan was born in Plymouth on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1956, but her family moved to the UK when she was an infant. She now lives between Hertfordshire in the UK and New York. Her sculpture evades easy categorisation: it is non-figurative but associative, combining personal and cultural references while drawing on a wide variety of materials and techniques. Over the years Ryan has worked with tropical fruit, feathers and dust, dyeing an...