Ouch! Careful, they're Sharp, 2023
Mdf, paint, card, canvas, wool, mirrors, fabric, stuffing, card, chair legs, spray paint, rope, clay
Approx 300x250x400cm
Stow Building, Glasgow
Ouch! Careful, they're Sharp was an installation centering around maker and material, using material to explore intuitive and instinctual making as an individual experience. Commonly using material whose properties are low tech to facilitate reactionary play. The installation was influenced by the foundations of formalist sculpture, made with the awareness of form, space, and balance.
Following on from my Objects of Play work, the individual pieces are intuitively made and curated into site-specific installations, where they’re free to form relationships and narratives among themselves. The pieces never reach completion, and are stuck in cycles of evolution, continually being transformed and remade in different environments. The outcome of this playful relationship was Ouch! Careful, they're Sharp, an installation that plays with scale, texture, colour, and repetition, creating a nostalgic experience through which the viewer can be transported.