 y work is about growth and decay. Change. The process of transition from one state/one moment to the next. As one dies another springs anew from the decay. The forms I use echo the natural world; seeds, shells, skeletons, crustaceans, insects, fossils, geological formations, landscape features... Fossils and landscapes in particular interest me as they imply vast processes beyond themselves. They can be thought of as maps of the processes that have led to their current forms. This idea of Process, and 'mapping', lies behind all my work.
These same process operate on my internal landscape, and my work is partly a way of externalizing this.
In my work I often oxidize the steel, and by initiating this oxidization involving billions of tiny events which are free to take their own course, it is possible to incorporate an active process with in the work.
(web-site)
http://sculptures.freeserve.co.uk
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| Education & Training |
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I am self-taught, and I have always worked independently just making the things I want to make .So, whilst it has been a great adventure and I have learned whole loads of stuff, there's not a great deal to write about. It's just my life. |
| Recent Exhibitions |
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Park View Gallery, Birmingham
Herons Moon Gallery, N.Yorks.
Rope Walk Gallery ,Humberside.
Sir Gerald Hillier Gardens, Hampshire.
Beetroot Tree Gallery,Notts.
St.John Street Gallery,Derbys.
Art Attack,Hoxton Sq.,London.
Cusp Gallery, Lincs.
Beatrice Royal Gallery, Hampshire
Botanic Gardens, Leicester University
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