The artist celebrating the Windrush generation
Ruby Tandoh, RA Magazine
September 2021
Veronica Ryan was going to place the soursop in the churchyard, until her nerves set in. The sculpture – a 1.5-metre bronze in the spiked, comma shape of a tropical soursop fruit – would have been in good company among the locals who stroll and chat in the shade of the St John at Hackney gardens in east London. A short walk away, there would be a large, petalled custard apple in luminous Carrara marble, and a breadfruit, its honeycomb skin rendered in bronze. But something about the placement didn’t feel right. […]