Monday 11 October 2010

MA in Fine Art Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art 2010


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.

Friday 21 May 2010

"Beyond Excess", SHUNT Re-opening, London Bridge, May 2010


After the Excess I, 2010, unframed digital print, 15 x 22 cm, edition of 5





After the Excess II, 2010, unframed digital print, 22 x 15 cm, edition of 5




After the Excess III, 2010, unframed digital print, 15 x 22 cm, edition of 5





After the Excess IV, 2010, unframed digital print, 22 x 15 cm, edition of 5





After the Excess V, 2010, unframed digital print, 22 x 15 cm, edition of 5






After the Excess VI, 2010, unframed digital print, 15 x 22 cm, edition of 5




After the Excess VII
, 2010, unframed digital print, 15 x 22 cm, edition of 5




Sunday 4 April 2010

"Ruins of a Failed Utopia" 2010










(Untitled) Block, 2009









"After the Excess", 2009, Basement Gallery, Dundalk

My installations are chaotic compositions of consumer detritus including donuts, cakes, Barbie
dolls, supermarket purchases, fruit and vegetables, baking ingredients, paint, board-games,
sweets, breakfast cereal, fireplace ornaments, packaging, toys, books and other items. The
artwork is always temporary and left to decompose over the course of the exhibition before being destroyed once the exhibition is over. They appear like 16th/17th century still life paintings infected by the debris and temporality of 21st century capitalism.





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