Found Objects

I have collected various found objects to produce a body of work on; specifically sculpture based work.

This is a small wasp nest that has been abandoned...I like the texture, the fragility of the material and the shape and formal qualities.

This is a section of a coconut; my second found object. It has several varieties of textures that are unrecognisable and almost impossible to identify as a coconut.

This is a cast I have taken from the coconut. To me it looks like a forest.

I have experimented with qualities of materials that range from pure and 'organic' to synthetic. Using a similar shape and form relating to the wasp nest.  

This is a wooden ball I made from a cube, just using a band saw. It is not finished yet I still need to sand it down. I like the texture and tone of the wood which is the same material as the nest but in contrast is solid and hard.

My intentions are to explore the density of these experimental material forms concerning weight,mass and volume etc.  

Installing them with other found objects, possibly combining or simply arranging them to exploit these properties.

More will be added soon...

Previous Work

This is the work I produced whilst doing the Art & Design Foundation Diploma at Walsall College. We produced work to exhibit at the Custard Factory, Winter 2009. The Black Canvas with the white body print is mine, the work next to it was a HND students work (I think).

I called this piece Les Morts Dansant; The Dancing Dead. I took the title from a song by the band Magnum.

These are prints I took of my face to produce silk screen prints.

This is a cast of my face. I made 21 casts for my Final Major Project. Five were for a performance piece, where I recorded the attempt to smash them but the plaster was almost indestructible. I was pleased with what I did capture as the faces collided and spun around one another producing some diverse elements ranging from elegant and subtle or dormant but deathly. The feedback and response was mixed, it made some people uncomfortable or scared.

Here I tried to subtly change them using colour to test symbolism and psychology. 

This work is what I have done up to yet at University. This sculpture is based on a feather; a hand held object chosen to transform into a sculpture that can assemble and disassemble.

 Materials used were wood for the structure, cocktail sticks, wall plugs and paper. 

This was based on the Chapman brothers work; Tragic Anatomies. Representing mutation/evolution, natural and unnatural materials.