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Skerret

Hot dip galvanised mild steel and weathered corten steel
2008/11 (67cm h x 55cm x 75cm) (192cm h x 58cm x 75cm incl weathered mild steel base)

 
         
 
         
         

Rift

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Nickel and black chrome electroplated steel
2009 (87cm h x 49cm x 57cm)

 
         
         

Rift1

Hot dip galvanised mild steel and weathered corten steel
2010/11 (104cm h x 72cm x 50cm)

 
         
         

Rift2

Hot dip galvanised mild steel and weathered corten steel
2010/11 (62cm h x 127cm x 68cm)

 
         
         

Rift1 and Rift2

Hot dip galvanised mild steel and weathered corten steel with mild steel bases
2011 (dimensions variable)

 
         

Rift1 and 2 pursue a moment between balance and flight where the precise distribution of mass, form and space activate the sculpture. Inspired by observation of the natural marine world, it is intended to embody complexity, movement and a sense of thrust and violence - all reduced to their simplest elements.

The galvanised steel elements represents the force of the sea, a powerful flow of ocean currents. The weathered Corten elements symbolise sedentary marine animals - violently being torn from their fundament by the force of the current. The work explores the tension generated by environmental forces interacting with and reflected by the change in shape of these small invertebrate sea creatures.

An engineered square-section girder under end-to-end compression (the Z-shape) is reused to represent this elemental oceanic force. Simple triangular blocks of weathered steel are re-engineered into the physical components of the animals. A reductionist approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to elemental interactions between their fundamental constituents.

         

Settle

Nickel and black chrome electroplated steel
2009 (19cm h x 28cm x 72cm)

 
         
         

Unsettle

Nickel and black chrome electroplated steel
2009 (64cm h x 47cm x 60cm)

 
         
         

Slither

Hot dip galvanised mild steel and oxidised corten steel
2008/11 (50cm h x 50cm x 130cm) (112cm h x 50cm x 130cm incl weathered mild steel base)

 
         
 
         
         

Slither and Slither1 pursue a moment where the precise distribution of mass, form and space activate the sculpture. Inspired by observation of the natural marine world, each is intended to embody complexity, movement and a sense of thrust and violence. The galvanised elements represent the force of ocean currents. The weathered corten elements of sedentary marine animals violently being pushed and pulled in all directions by the force of the current. The work explores the tension generated by environmental forces interacting with and reflected by the change in shape of small invertebrate sea creatures.

Slither1

Hot dip galvanised mild steel and oxidised corten steel
2010 (43cm h x 142cm x 60cm)

 
         
         
         

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