REPETITION AND DIFFERENCE


These early works explored repetition and difference by reproducing the same form in different materials. The simple forms when repeated and combined creates a whole greater than the sum of its parts - a symbiotic arrangement.


Many of the forms were made by filling balloons, (donut balloons, sausage balloons) with plaster or expanding foam. A mould was then made of these simple shapes and then cast in different materials.


Repeating these simple objects  and arranging them to create more complex forms, creates a magnifying repetition of imperfection, a physical evolution.


Below, Symbiosis, slate powder, resin using donut balloon form. 160cm x 50cm x 50cm. 2012

Below.  Marble powder, resin, using donut balloon form, 130cm x 50 cm x 50cm. 2012


Below,  marble powder, resin, using donut balloon form,

130cm x 50 cm x 50cm. 2012

Below,  marble powder, resin, using donut balloon form, 130cm x 50 cm x 50cm. 2012


Below, sausage balloon, filled with expanding foam is cast in slate powder and resin,

120cm x 40cm x 40cm. 2011

Below, sausage balloon, filled with expanding foam is cast in slate powder and resin,

120cm x 40cm x 40cm. 2011

Below, cast in bronze resin using the cold casting method. 2011.


Below, these forms were made by repeatedly joining wax drops together into a column which was then cast. Below the columns are cast in state powder and resin and multiply combined.  Repetition of form, process and material creating difference.

Above, Above,  cast wax droplets in slate resin 150cm x 40cm x 40cm . 2011


Below,column of cast wax droplets in aluminium resin , deconstructed and threaded on a wire.

100cm x 50 cm x 50cm. 2011


The work below was made from debris of a forest floor which was combined with its clay soil. The tree trump inspired the shape of the sculpture resulting in a spider like organism emerging from the stump. Made from natural forest materials it becomes part of the forest. The clay and debris forms were then cast in different materials again , completely changing its nature. ( Below, resin.) 2011


Below, forest debris form cast in resin to appear like ice and taken back to the forest on a frosty morning.


Below, cast in aluminium resin and thread on a wire.


Below, the same form is cast in wax and threaded on wire resulting in an organic looking sculpture. 2011

Above left,cast wax droplets , slate resin. 160cm x 50cm x40 cm. Above right columns of cast wax droplets in aluminium resin cut into pieces and thread onto wire. Each time sculpture is moved it takes on a different shape and dimension.



Below, this work was made from debris of a forest floor which was combined with its clay soil. The tree stump inspired the shape of the sculpture resulting in a spider like organism emerging from the stump. Made from natural forest materials it becomes part of the forest. The clay and debris forms were then cast in different materials again , completely changing its nature. ( Below, resin.) 2011

Above, forest debris form cast in resin to appear like ice and taken back to the forest on a frosty morning.


 Below, cast in aluminium resin and thread on a wire.


Below, the same form is cast in wax and threaded on wire.

Creates an organic looking sculpture. 2011