VERONICA RYAN ON HOW LOSS, MIGRATION AND MATERIALS SHAPE THE BRITISH ARTIST’S WORK
Precious Adesina, FT Weekend Magazine
March 2026
When British artist Veronica Ryan’s sculpture ‘Custard Apple (Annonaceae), Breadfruit (Moraceae) and Soursop’ (Annonaceaer) was installed in a square in east London in 2021, she visited it every day. She became so preoccupied with checking on it that she called a friend to confess. “It’s like letting your children go,” she says now, no longer monitoring it daily. The three-piece bronze-and-marble artwork of Caribbean fruits was created to commemorate the Windrush generation. It echoes the 69-year-old’s wider practice’.et ln which she often transforms everyday organic forms into mesmerising creations.