As requested by the generous staff at Broomhill I shall be endeavouring to update this blog weekly (ideally of a Sunday) throughout the process of making my piece for the sculpture competition. My aim over the next 6 weeks is to give people whom are interested an opportunity to view my working practice and to personally expand upon my conceptual dialogue.
I have been practicing sculpture for a little over 10 years now and in that time I have experimented and researched a broad range of disciplines and methodologies both within sculpture, and more broadly the fine arts. Within the last decade I have probably spent half of that time within the realm of academia and I have always been interested in the phenomenon of the written word superseding that of the visual.
Personally I enjoy ambiguity within modern practice as well as the sense of play that many invoke within their work, for me with my own practice I have come to strongly question notions of hierarchies and narratives within society. I have always found these artificial constructs to be distracting from what is fundamental, that of character or characters.
I enjoy producing pieces that exist within their own right and serve no audience other than myself. I feel a piece is truly successful if it takes on a character of its own, B-boy Cush is one such piece in a series of works I have been developing over the past couple of years. As the weeks progress I shall expand upon this point further, however as with all things there is always a beginning and I am pleased to announce that this week I was able to make a start on the piece.
B-boy Cush is a piece that will be realised through the use of a custom built jig that I have made. In order for the jig to be of any use it must be fitted with a profile, in this case the profile was cut from 1/2 inch thick plywood and a big thank you to the staff at Argo Carpentry based in Shaftesbury who were good enough to cut and clean the profile for the jig. www.argocarpentry.com
After it was cut it was back to the workshop to mount the profile ready for clay, more to follow so please watch this space.
