SCULPTURE 2017

Alien Family is a set of abstract, meteorite rock-like sculptures on spindly insect like legs, grouped together, posing as a family unit. They are deliberately clunky and placed anthropomorphically, but are presented as prop: they act as a stand-in. It is sculpture as dumb object, suggestive of pre-CGI and reference the Cold War and religious cults. Engaged in out moded notions of formalist abstract sculpture: arrangement, weight, balance, they deliberately disappoint on closer inspection. 

The Visitors, by contrast are more narrative based: a pair of primitive gold (Sputnik) satellites, again with legs. They suggest an anthropomorphised alien form whilst also referencing the Golden Spheres from the Zone in Boris Strugatsky's ‘Roadside Picnic’, on which Tarkovsky's film Stalker is based. These works, though kitsch, also articulate a sense of displacement, desire and a loss of confidence in the present.