left: Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm
centre: See-saw, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 143cm
centre background: Mini-Folly, 2010, concrete & plaster, 66 x 39 x 39cm
right: Tower, 2010, concrete & plaster, 103 x 39 x 39cm
left: Tower, 2010, concrete & plaster, 103 x 39 x 39cm
centre: See-saw, 2010 concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 43cm
background: Lever, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 7 x 7cm
right: Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm
See-saw, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 19 x 43cm
Lever, 2010, concrete & plaster, 200 x 7 x 7cm
Monument, 2010, concrete & plaster, 135 x 37 x 37cm
Mini-Folly, 2010, concrete & plaster, 66 x 39 x 39
Various monuments and edifices I see around London
influence my recent drawings andsculptures. Particularly
the area of the city around Chelsea College of Art,
Tate Britain, Westminster and Whitehall, is saturated
with forms such as obelisks, columns, rectangular
plinths and monuments. In my work I recognise
these forms that speak of purity and austerity as
embedded in a history of dominance and control.
My sculptures seek to corrupt and suffuse the
sombreness of this male monumental architecture
with the frivolousness and flippancy of
consumer culture. I want to contaminate the serious
whites, greys, blacks and beiges with bright
lurid pink, yellow, oranges and reds.
I want to disrupt the precision and exactness of
architecture with playfulness and pleasure
and to deny these monuments of their
heroic autonomy and fixed
subjectivity to appropriate them
for my own means.
