Now that my work is finished and installed at Broomhill I want to say a big thank you to the London Sculpture Workshop who allowed me to use their facilities to make my sculpture. The technicians Mellis and James were incredibly helpful and made it possible to get a lot done in a very short time frame. I would recommend the workshop to anyone making sculpture in London.
http://londonsculptureworkshop.org
My sculpture for the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2015 is now finished and on display. I had a fantastic time at Broomhill installing the work and I am very happy with the work and its location.
Friday was install day at Broomhill Art Hotel. After exploring the grounds I chose a place to install my work that was isolated island of land between a pond, a ditch and group of trees. This created a natural stage that I could then frame my work within.
My friend Lauren Wilson helped me install on the day. It was a busy day fixing the sculpture together and then finally setting the sculpture into cement filled trenches.
My sculptures usually begin with a research expedition to a museum or a landscape and develop through extensive experimentation with materials and processes in my studio. My work investigates landscape and the representation of nature using an abstract visual language. I am interested in using materials to represent something as complex as an ocean or a land mass simply through form or colour or line. I move between drawing, sculpture and printmaking and I consider my work to be a collection of specimens that I have discovered through the process of making. My sculptures and installations are moments when I bring several objects together with the desire to communicate another world.
