FUNCTIONAL FICTION
Plaster, pigment, canvas, 2012-2015.
This body of work was produced during my BFA, between 2012-2015. The work aimed to explore the mutually shaping processes of urban space and human identity through sculptural and site-specific works.
This body of work was produced during my BFA, between 2012-2015. The work aimed to explore the mutually shaping processes of urban space and human identity through sculptural and site-specific works.
Whilst the cast usually promises perfect replication, the work instead created a divergence away from the machine-made object towards something hand made or human in it's inexactness. Using objects such as cylinders, lengths of pipes and roof pieces, I wanted to explore the possibility for considering the connection between functional parts and our own bodies. I'm interested in how objects might work together to form a functioning unit which draws comparisons to our own bodies, which act as functional parts within a larger whole. At the time I wanted the work to elude to an awareness of the human body and human characteriscs, which can be seen in way that they lean against one another, prop one another up and align themselves to the human stature.
The sculptures can be seen to perform collectively like figures, whilst at the same time lend themselves to the logic of sets, series and modules associated with mass production. I tend to view them anthropomorphically or with an empathetic gaze. My practice developed primarily out of the language of painting. Influenced at the time by Art Povera, Formalist painters and Minimalist artists of the 60's, the work plays upon a language of architecture and industrial production and sees implications of the human body, coming out of man-made objects by means of casting.
