Delighted the see ‘Aurora’ gracing the lush gardens of Chelsea Arts Club, creating a sanctuary for the soul and a welcome rest from the bustling streets of London.
Named for the ancient Roman goddess of the Dawn, this sculpture embodies the renewed hope of a new day. A new form is glimpsed underneath the outer shell, like sunlight pouring through parted clouds.
Jill Berelowitz makes ambitious, large scale works that articulate her personal experiences, infused with a positive and often spiritual feel. Many of the works are deeply personal, incorporating symbols of a talismanic importance to the artist: an elephant, the tree of life, circles and spherical forms, a feather, a dachshund.
Many others evoke the human figure formed with qualities of elegance and lyrical movement, often elongated and abstracted in the manner of the traditional tribal sculpture of her homeland.
The female figure is of particular importance to Jill, emblematic of the interest in beauty that preoccupies the artist. Her figurative forms are at once specific and universal - at times they signify human movement and transition, at others they become figures from classical myth, becoming the personification of natural forms, from tiny seed pods, to the mother of dawn in Aurora.