I am an artist exploring materials in a process-based practice; I use fabrics and metal to make repetitive sculptures.
I am an artist exploring materials in a process-based practice; I use fabrics and metal to make repetitive sculptures.
Photograph taken by ALICE FARNDON.
All new making occurs from already existing marks; one cannot happen without the other. Even when experimenting with new processes, a familiar regime is followed naturally. Subconsciously, I allow work to respond to one another, and the material dictates each move.
I do this by responding to the colours already on the material to choose the design's (patterns) colour. The material responds to the site on which it is printed. I act on this by copying and re-copying these designs, each time becoming more gestural, allowing drawings to respond to and make their own sculptures and situating them in spaces where they can finally be brought back together. I achieve this by installing work on a wall and then installing/pinning work on top as if the original material is now the site it was first put into. I further fulfil this by letting the material copy the shape of its site, meaning it responds to whatever site it is placed within. New work becomes created from, for, with and in marks and choices made before. Work becomes a verb, an action, a process in constructing itself, having autonomy over its colour, shape, and reflection in space; if space can become material, the material can become space.
Repeating natures and routines structure my practice; when work responds to another, it repeats itself. It is now not just a pattern or process repeating itself; from site(material) to site(material), it follows in a sequence. Yet, the unpredictable nature of how fabrics hold, keep colour, cut up and come back together is how I try to break the repeating process that occurs. The actions I act out upon the repurposed fabrics- (tablecloths, curtains, fencing tape), I am now superimposing onto new materials- (paper, mesh, metal), bringing movement and texture to static objects.
The content and concept come to be the materiality of my work.
Containing pieces in fabric, ink, oil pastel, metal, muslin, mesh and paper
In muslin, cotton and ink, 1x1.5m, 1.5x2m
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