MATERIAL
After intervening in Dallam House and deconstructing its rooms, I transported the building materials 157 miles back to my studio in the Richard Hamilton Building.
I sometimes have a tendency to overthink my work, so to loosen up and enjoy the ‘making’, I’ve spent the last few days playing around with the materials and discovering their possibilities. Whilst working I began to think back to the When Attitudes Become Form exhibition at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Here I became witness to a project that reconstructed a previous show curated by Harald Szeemann at the Bern Kunsthalle in 1969. Artists including Carl Andre, Bruce Nauman and Joseph Beuys were united by an exploration of materiality in addition to the relationships between artworks and the space they occupy. Within my own practice, I’m carefully considering these associations between materials, space and the juxtaposing sculptural qualities of hard and soft, cold and warm materials.
I have included some images here of my material experiments.
