Pocket Sculptures by David Kefford

About

The two photographs on display are part of an ongoing project by David Kefford entitled 'Pocket Sculptures'. The project involves a process of gathering small items of waste material - ordinary bits and bobs, which other people have discarded - on routine walks. These are then taken back to his studio where they are assembled/modeled/arranged through an intuitive and improvised process – finger exercises - and then staged to be captured as a photograph.

Kefford’s work often engages, through simple actions and playful gestures, with human-related objects and materials in a particular space and time. Much of it is site-generated, contingent and fragile, which reflects his interest in the awkward and precarious status of his artistic persona and related objects used to stage an event. The sculptural work is mutable, temporal, uses un-monumental materials, and is made in connection with, and to, his own body. He liberates and subverts common objects, materials and found images from the everyday environment and transforms these into new sculptural scenarios that suggest elusive, emotional and psychological narratives.

He is interested in the intersection between the private making process and a public outcome and how these can potentially coalesce through a ‘live(d)’ experience. His practice continually seeks new physical spaces, media space or the space between bodies and events for production and presentation and how they are affected by new spatial conditions. It is the role of improvised play in the act of making sculpture within a social context that best embodies Kefford’s practice – a fluid process of continual becoming, a ‘cause and effect’ of performative actions.

David Kefford (b. 1972) is an artist based in Cambridge UK. He graduated from the MA Fine Art course at the University of Brighton in 1999, is alumni of Wysing Arts Centre and co-founder and member of artist-led initiative Aid & Abet. 

Kefford’s work has been extensively exhibited and commissioned in the UK and internationally. He has been the recipient of several prizes and awards and his work is held in a number of private collections.

You can see more of his work here: www.davidkefford.com

You can view this exhibition here online, on Facebook or in person on the corner of Vestry Road and Peckham Road, Camberwell, London SE5.