Here are a selection of recent works showing the different scales and different ideas I work with: Blue Rose
“A Blue Rose is an impossibility in nature, an unnatural thing” -Twin Peaks, David Lynch.
This work is as much an examination of sculptural composition (balance of form, weight of line composition in space) as it is an unearthing of subtle fears and the unnatural. The mildly arachnoid figure, a suggestion of articulate limbs potentially crawling off their plinth triggers subtle worries, whilst the plinth itself foils at least the visual possibility of this happening. I showed this at the MAFA Gallery at Chelsea UAL as a part of FOUR SCOPES.
Worst Case Scenario C
An object I created after watching Nymphomaniac by Lars Von Trier, as a traumatic reaction to both the malevolently brutal motif’s of the film, and in particular the terrible attempted humour of “The Silent Duck”. In this work I reimagine the act of “The Silent Duck” as a kind of terrifying breach in reality, the appearance of something from within Pandora’s Box, that has no right or physical possibility of being there, and thus reimagine the injunction to not open pandora's box. The box is the size of a small torso, fits between hands in an awkward, ungainly manner.
Complimentary Distraction Piece
This piece was made for the school of St.Michaels in Kent. Each sculpture is an highly process driven communal work of art- the form of the sculpture is derived from drawings created by the students, charting their daily travels around the school, translated onto sheets of steel that I then cut out, welded together, spray painted and installed on site. The idea being to elevate the mundane every day task into a beautiful abstracted sculpture that is visually refreshing, other-worldy and hopefully, nebulously inspiring.