Exhibition

Objects things and stuff

8 Jun 2014 – 28 Jun 2014

Regular hours

Sunday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

Free

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I sit in my studio looking at a shelf of rocks: rocks that I have collected from walks and carefully placed and curated on a simple painted MDF shelf. Each has been chosen, firstly for their shape and colour, and secondly through how they feel in the hand. I see this shelf as a collection, a collection much like any other, but I think that there has to be more to it. The chalk, almost bone like sits perched resting on top of a sharp brownish red rock much smaller than itself. There is, and must be a reason why this configuration feels right. I sit wondering why I have collected these fragments, these fragments of something much, much bigger, and why I have placed them in the way that I have. What is it about them? I attempt to reason, to write down what it is that fascinates me - I can't and become increasingly agitated, to the point where I want to, and eventually do give up. Instead I make. I make configurations of stuff: of objects with images; of materials, perched resting on another for stability; of precarious interactions in order to make sense of these landscape formations. This process of making and presenting though, leads to more questions, more questions that I attempt to answer. Often stumbling over words, I feel that words are never enough, or are of detriment to the work. I struggle, and then make some more. I have always been fascinated with the natural landscape, and the very stuff of it: textures, forms, materials, material dialogues… These rocks form only part of this fascination. The innate need to make my own in an to attempt to understand, and on a basic level, I suppose, the simple joy of ‘playing' with materials, objects and images, and asking how they can be manipulated or paired to create re-interpretations of the familiar. Scale and the distortion of it play a central role in my practice. I find these landscape vistas incomprehensible — they're huge, overpowering, terrifying. They tower over me, dwarfing me in comparison. In reaction I shrink down, I condense, I break down formally and materially. I present playful interactions of things, of objects, of stuff to create an imagined alternative — my space, my ideal

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