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Work Type:sculpture
Date of work:2003
Materials:medium: roots, insects
notes: approx. 70 pieces

Measurements:variable

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:animal, insects, fairies, miniaturism,
Technique:assemblage
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
‘(…) tiny sculptures, made from roots and insect parts, an attempt to re-ignite a sense of childlike curiosity and wonder in the viewer. Over the last four years, these creatures have entrapped me, having shrunk further and further, and now undergone a disconcerting chimerical mutation amongst the species. I call them fairies, but these are not the benign gossamer beings of the Victorian era. They occupy a transitory state, hovering somewhere between existence and imagination, between life and death. Their macabre appearance echoes their sinister behaviour.’
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Source:Artist’s Statement. New Contemporaries 2005 submission form
Date of source:January 2004