- Venue
- Angelika Studios
- Date
- Saturday, May 30, 2015
02:45 PM - Address
- 2nd Floor Block A Commercial Square Leigh St High Wycombe HP11 2 RH
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- Angelika Studios
During the last four years Coventry based artist Martin Green has been investigating the notions of his materials which he finds in the streets, including multiple discarded, pens, legal and illegal drug packaging. His work responds to both that environment and to the stories these objects evoke. Scuffed Stories will intervene and react to the architecture and location of Angelika Studios This one day event includes an artist’s talk, a performance and a public construction of three sculptural pieces.
‘The starting point for the current work are objects that people, who live in and travel through cities and towns, lose, drop or discard, which I retrieve on my daily routine journeys. I document and reinvent cities through the objects that are found on city floors by using various methods of transforming found objects into art works. The recent sculptures and wall-mounted pieces explore issues relating to the urban environment.
I view found objects as materials to be dismantled, exposing the insides, revealing the underneath, directly painting onto, scratching into the surface. A process of exploring, destroying and transforming. The transformation process exposes stories relating to the urban environment creating fragile sculptural poems that bear witness to the shifting shape of our society.’
Green’s recent projects include:
April 2015, Scuffed, residency and exhibition of 18 sculptures and text works within the Rope Press Bookshop
August – November 2014, Shed – Collect – Shed, residency and a group show with Lorsen Camps and Joanna Rucjlidge, including an individual commission of 12 City Box sculptures. Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry.
August – September 2013, Scuffed Underside, solo show. Edinburgh Festival, Dean’s Office Gallery, Edinburgh.
