Ro Robertson: Modern Nature, Sloane Street with Frieze Studios
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Ro Robertson: Modern Nature, Sloane Street with Frieze Studios
October 2025
We are pleased to announce that Ro Robertson’s Stone (Butch) (2022) is included in Modern Nature, a new art trail unfolding along Sloane Street throughout Frieze Week.
Curated by Frieze Studios, Modern Nature is inspired by Derek Jarman – who lived briefly on Sloane Square – and his concept of ‘modern nature’. The display engages with ideas of plant life, habitat and environment, reflecting Chelsea’s botanical history and the abundant greenery on Sloane Street.
The artist created the central jesmonite section of Stone (Butch) by plaster casting directly in the crevices of rock formations at St Ives Bay in Cornwall, capturing the negative space created through erosion, reflecting the power of the sea and the air. Referencing lesbian and trans activist Leslie Feinberg’s 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues, the sculpture embodies the way natural terrain is always shifting and fluid – and reclaims a space for identities that have been often deemed ‘unnatural’.
Modern Nature is on view along Sloane Street from 10–20 October 2025, coinciding with Frieze London and Frieze Masters (15–19 October).
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