Sculpture/Objects.

Many of the works, apart from the wall pieces are still at a developmental stage and still evolving. Although some of the objects are stand alone, they still have the potential to be combined and juxtaposed to form larger works. As well as found objects I mostly use lead, clay, dust, organic material, wax and more recently cloth, which then go through a series of processes which will be described in a further section. The floor pieces are designed to be adapted to various architectural spaces and layouts. Caput Mortuum (Chorus Anonymous) now has two thousand heads and three tower constructions. These can be laid out very tightly in a confined space or more spatially arranged in a large area.

Several of the themes and iconography from the earlier works on paper have been developed within this work. The falling stick figures of the early Bitumen drawings are now the multitude of clay heads imprinted with a face shape; the symbol for Caput Mortuum. The Mountain is the house made of clay, ash and lead and the Angel is the spoon with its elongated, Byzantine form.

All the pieces are fragile in their own particular way. They distort, break, melt, crack, chip or slowly erode away through time and friction. Each is in its own state of impermanence. An interest in Archaeology has led to experimenting with burying packages in the ground for long periods of time. The ground acts like an oven, a natural incubator for transformation. The packages are disinterred and then worked on in the studio.

February 2024