Hide and Seek
2022
Wood, paint, oils, canvas cut-outs, 43cm x 200cm each
Four Eyes
Wood, spray paint, 30 cm x 60cm each 2022
Every life has a purpose
Amber cast glass, (Young and Old) light box plinths, 2006
Exhibited in Island 6 Arts Centre, Shanghai, China as part of British Council Artists Link Residency, works developed for the Shanghai Biennale Off-Site exhibition, Less Travelled.
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“Two life scale branches have been cast in glass. The young branch is pure and untainted. The old shows the passage of time. It now lies disassembled. It has been a preoccupation of the artist whilst in China to research manufacturing. The word manufacturing comes from the Latin words, manu by hand and facto – made. In todays society, we associate manufacture with mass production. The branches go back to the roots of manufacture and are made by hand. They serve as a sharp contrast to the speed and transience of today’s production line. Like the Chinese ancient artefacts of the past, the production is slow, the outcome more layered and the life span prolonged.
Imminent
Kitchen Cupboard periscope, Shanghai art deco houseware, 2006
Exhibited in Island 6 Arts Centre, Shanghai, China as part of British Council Artists Link Residency, works developed for the Shanghai Biennale Off-Site exhibition, Less Travelled.
An old kitchen cupboard is suspended near a window, relocation is imminent. Imminent – impending, about to occur, present participle of imminire – to overhang. Within the cupboard, an integrated periscope reveals a constructed scene. Through the lower chamber, objects appear in distorted planes. An illusion is created and deconstructed. The old encases the new.
To be continued
Resin (cast segments of a bamboo ladder- top - middle – bottom
Exhibited in Island 6 Arts Centre, Shanghai, China as part of British Council Artists Link Residency, works developed for the Shanghai Biennale Off-Site exhibition, Less Travelled.