Viewing The Moon’s Daughter is a Pearl at Gallery Fumi

Artist Emma Witter “dreams with her hands and works to another time”, working with found materials, from flea markets, waste from market stalls and items salvaged from the banks of the Thames, such as egg shells, bones, oysters, and even pig teeth. With these unusual materials Witter creates her unique sculptures and objects, with their evocative, ethereal presence. They’re reminders that one person’s trash is another’s treasure.

In Witter’s solo exhibition at Gallery Fumi, London, the artist fills the lower ground floor with new, otherworldly works made with natural, humble materials and precious metals. By preserving the found objects in tact in her own reinterpretations, Witter also pays tribute to the craftsmanship that has come before her, the hands of labourers, chefs and artisans who have used these materials in various ways and each add their own layer of history and emotion.

The show’s title is a nod to this too – a line taken from a poem by the British writer and curator Anna Souter, whose writing on art and ecology has been a constant and key influence on Witter.