Eternal Spring

Eternal Spring by Aurora Robson is a transformative installation created for the Hunter Museum’s Mansion Stairwell, incorporating plastic debris collected in Chattanooga. Robson’s site-specific sculptures engage directly with the Mansion’s architecture and with works in the surrounding galleries. By transforming plastic containers, Robson comments on a cultural tendency to consume and discard while invoking the art-historical metaphor of the vessel as a representation of the female form. These shimmering sculptures dance against the Hunter Museum’s historic architecture, creating uplifting clarity from a complex web of recycled materials. In conversation with Karen LaMonte’s nearby reclining dress sculpture, Robson’s shifts the spatial narrative into a collective environment of intellectual, ecological, and spiritual renewal.

Aurora Robson (b. 1972) is a visual artist known for working with plastic waste. She was born in Toronto, raised in Hawaii, and lived in New York City for over two decades, during which she studied structural metal welding and worked in film, construction, and entertainment. Robson studied art history and visual art at Columbia University. Throughout her career, she has developed numerous techniques for sculpting plastic debris, including fastening, weaving, sewing, ultrasonic welding, injection welding, and 3-D printing. Robson has received several awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

In addition to her studio practice, Robson is also the founding artist of Project Vortex, a global collective of artists and designers working with plastic debris. Currently, Aurora lives in the Hudson Valley, NY.

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