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Work Type:installation
Date of work:2000-2001
Materials:medium: mixed media

Measurements:height: 8 ft

width: 10 ft

depth: 13 ft

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:architecture, gallery, domestic, display, sculpture
Technique:wooden construction, assemblage
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
A wooden structure on wheels serves as a two storey gallery featuring the Artist sculptures. Artist's statement: ‘I believe that animals do not suffer from the obsession with self consciousness that human have. Animal like forms are introduced into my objects, they are a link to a child like way of being. I focus my research on intimate places especially the home and its objects. The best place to exhibit the work is in as if domestic environment so as to expose the connection and at the same time the physical awkwardness that we have in an around furniture. My objects all have a physical place for the body to explore and move into. These places are sleeping bag/ envelope/skin like places, which usually are uncomfortable and have an awkwardness attached to them. Whilst the objects may be physically inviting they are in a raw state and might be unsettling to be with. The structure is a home for my objects, a place that makes the objects accessible as they are controlled in a space that can be a home, a tree house, a living room, or the space underneath the table. I’m interested in the psychological need humans have to go to places of awkwardness and disability. I want my objects to visit this place, to make it real.’
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Source:Artist's Statement. New Contemporaries 2001 submission form
Date of source:January 2001