Working ‘big’ is a significant feature in Ryder’s work as she often rises to the constructional and creative challenges this brings. For her first commission for Cure3 she has embraced the altogether different challenge of working ‘small’ and says of her sculpture: “My Minotaur, a half-man half-bull character can be strong but also loving and caring. My Ladyhare, a character who I developed as a companion to the Minotaur is a half-woman and half-hare figure. She encompasses everything it is to be a strong independent woman yet at the same time with the Minotaur,
she becomes part of a strong partnership, a friend, a lover, a mother.”