A303 (2019)
A collection of sculptural mixed media works created for the exhibition west lands, Hauser & Wirth gallery, Somerset 2019.
The collection was inspired by the brief presented by gallery director Jaquiline Moore, inviting the selected artists based or connected with the South West, to create work made from locally sourced materials. Equally, an exploration of place, environment and landscape to be an inspiration.
The A303 road, ancient in origins and the trunk road that bring back and forth travellers to and from the southwest – I was brought up in Somerset, moved away and yet I return often for family and friends and it is the journey along this road that is the constant. The four individual sculptural works consider the accommodation and relationship of two contrasting materials, the impact and fusion of these two materials are central to my personal responses to the theme of the contrasting relationship of both the landscape and the experience of living in the country side and Urban at varies times of my life. The returning and the leaving.
The found wooden components within each work have been foraged from directly from the A303 or the area close to the road and selected for its form and loose or direct providence with my personal response to the landscape. Each piece is titled by a town or village that has personal meaning to me.
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