Sentinels
Making form out of space. By pouring wet and liquid plaster into holes in the ground made by rat runs, I allowed the material to move, slide and fix itself into the void it finds.
Sentinels: a pair of salvaged, ebonised spears, formed from charred telegraph poles embedded in substantial concrete plinths. The blackened wooden spires, found in a bonfire many years ago, were saved and stored, moved home with, before being regenerated into today’s, portal-like, pair of guardians. The power of the fire destroyed at the same time as preserving them and their charcoaled blackness emphasises their shape and form. Materially, the somewhat crooked and fossilised black timber, contrasts with the grey precision of the manmade bases; giving Sentinels both their powerful suggestion of hope and despair, and their fusion of past and future: of destruction and renewal form out of space.
Here’s to thee - old apple tree.
Piles of apple windfalls were cast in plaster before the rotting, squelchy apple pulp was extracted manually to leave a labyrinthine like honey comb. A series of 5 sculptures which are circular in shape to represent the cycles of nature.
Soil Operatives
Plaster casts of mole hills, presented on blocks made from mole hill soil. Each is individually cast and is unique to the particular mound of earth. No moles were harmed in the making of these sculptures.
Uplift Series
Series of wall sculptures.
Series of wall sculptures made from dead plants that are immortalised by dipping their roots in plaster, embedding the stalk in cubes of concrete, upturning them and presenting them on steel wall mounts. Sizes various.
Making Mountains out of Molehills
This sculpture is cast in the very place from where it originated. The action of the tractor pressing its weight into the mud temporarily changes the shape and surface of the ground.
A metaphorical mountain of cast molehills. The multiple convex shapes nestle one of top of each other forming an insecure stack. Each convex form was cast from an individual mole hill in my garden, capturing the conical shape and form of the excavated earth sitting displaced on the surface.
Post Henge
A series of 15 sculptures cast from the holes in the ground left behind when fencing posts were removed.
A series of 15 sculptures cast from the holes in the ground left behind when fencing posts were removed. The plaster captures in the interior architecture and indexical marks from the wood and the soil encasing them.
Presented on antique wooden staircases they appear as petrified versions of themselves. Their primeval appearance contrasts with the refinement of their kin - the stairs. Like a crowd they wait their turn to ascend up the staircase to nowhere.
