[LESS]Selectors' Comments:
Hannah James's wood sculptures struck an immediate chord: they're deadpan and hilarious and look like nothing else I'm familiar with – my partner suggests the Americans William Wiley, or HC Westermann, but Wiley is more cartooney and Westermann more consistently folksy.
James's brilliantly titled Whale and Triangle walk the tightrope between modernist authority and colloquial fun with incredible panache; they also play graphic allusion off sculptural massing and engage something more anthropomorphic and domestic [as in furniture]. I'd add that the titles 'say it all', except that you have to see the pieces to feel the combined effect of her formal economy and whimsy.
