PROFILE
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I make sculptures that use found or appropriated objects, particularly furniture, which I alter, giving way to a transformation of the object’s visual appearance and a shift in the visual associations it has for the viewer. Sometimes these alterations are completely premeditated and other times they turn out to be more casual, allowing for serendipitous happenings. The piece may undergo one or more of a variety of simplified processes that range from everyday activities (like filling, covering or sowing) to more traditionally perceived art processes (such as carving) and via these transformations, the work becomes a vehicle to play with the ambivalence of our associations and accepted perceptual structures, whilst exposing the inherent beauty that lies within the objects and materials used.
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Garden Furniture
The Garden Furniture project came about through an interest in making sculpture that uses both permanent and ephemeral materials, altering a static piece of furniture by covering it in living, growing grass, the work therefore changes over time, altering itself, a process that is beyond my control. These sculptures have no definite end point, rather they are in this state of flux, continuing to evolve after they have been realised. Precariously ready to break, die or change further, a common factor occurring within the work.
The Garden Furniture project came about through an interest in making sculpture that uses both permanent and ephemeral materials, altering a static piece of furniture by covering it in living, growing grass, the work therefore changes over time, altering itself, a process that is beyond my control. These sculptures have no definite end point, rather they are in this state of flux, continuing to evolve after they have been realised. Precariously ready to break, die or change further, a common factor occurring within the work.
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Garden Furniture
The Garden Furniture project came about through an interest in making sculpture that uses both permanent and ephemeral materials, altering a static piece of furniture by covering it in living, growing grass, the work therefore changes over time, altering itself, a process that is beyond my control. These sculptures have no definite end point, rather they are in this state of flux, continuing to evolve after they have been realised. Precariously ready to break, die or change further, a common factor occurring within the work.
The Garden Furniture project came about through an interest in making sculpture that uses both permanent and ephemeral materials, altering a static piece of furniture by covering it in living, growing grass, the work therefore changes over time, altering itself, a process that is beyond my control. These sculptures have no definite end point, rather they are in this state of flux, continuing to evolve after they have been realised. Precariously ready to break, die or change further, a common factor occurring within the work.
Carcass
The outer layer of a wooden chair was carved till the point of collapse, leaving its 'skinned' remains.
The outer layer of a wooden chair was carved till the point of collapse, leaving its 'skinned' remains.
