The changing climate, an increasing depletion of natural resources, the growing population of human race, human migration, regional conflicts and wars – with the globalised world in continued and accelerated crisis, the role of my works has never been as important as today to bring about social, political, economic or environmental change.
left to right; 'spaceman' bronze and patinas 1995 always been fascinated by the space race and the spaceman outfit is something that has inspired me to make work, this work is derived from castings of household items.Materiality sometimes evokes censure, but it is sometimes a celebration. In other words, the use of material makes the viewer consider and re-align its suitability, purpose and above all, actual worth. I intend my works to admit the fascination of material objects, but they ask us to question the depth and consistency of our values.
'the stag's head' 1994- painted bronze forms; The aim of this work is to examine whether the world wide complicity with the idea of consuming both nature and manufactured objects has had any effect the political and social reception of his work, and to ask whether it has distanced and debilitated the social role of the artist. It's purpose is too engaged in employing recycled and sustainable materials, household objects ready-mades which I consider will challenge the audience through use of subject, the function of materials, scale and context of display.
'Angels' 1990's Another paradox emerges from this situation, and it is the phenomenon of the estranged values of the twentieth century culture. It is this. As a modernist culture and its successors became more inaccessible, self referential and remote, they found commercial favour sometimes precisely for these reasons. Art, while remaining an acknowledged minority taste was, and is, often pandered to by the media as an indicator of its own commitment to the wider cultural needs of society. Post modernism has signalled some re-evaluation of the cultural values and references, most evidently a critical redirection of thought which accommodates and utilises the past, but its interpretations are as diverse, and convoluted, and ultimately as inaccessible as the debates which surround modernism.
left to right; 'spaceman' bronze and patinas 1995 always been fascinated by the space race and the spaceman outfit is something that has inspired me to make work, this work is derived from castings of household items.Materiality sometimes evokes censure, but it is sometimes a celebration. In other words, the use of material makes the viewer consider and re-align its suitability, purpose and above all, actual worth. I intend my works to admit the fascination of material objects, but they ask us to question the depth and consistency of our values.
'the stag's head' 1994- painted bronze forms; The aim of this work is to examine whether the world wide complicity with the idea of consuming both nature and manufactured objects has had any effect the political and social reception of his work, and to ask whether it has distanced and debilitated the social role of the artist. It's purpose is too engaged in employing recycled and sustainable materials, household objects ready-mades which I consider will challenge the audience through use of subject, the function of materials, scale and context of display.
'Angels' 1990's Another paradox emerges from this situation, and it is the phenomenon of the estranged values of the twentieth century culture. It is this. As a modernist culture and its successors became more inaccessible, self referential and remote, they found commercial favour sometimes precisely for these reasons. Art, while remaining an acknowledged minority taste was, and is, often pandered to by the media as an indicator of its own commitment to the wider cultural needs of society. Post modernism has signalled some re-evaluation of the cultural values and references, most evidently a critical redirection of thought which accommodates and utilises the past, but its interpretations are as diverse, and convoluted, and ultimately as inaccessible as the debates which surround modernism.