My sculptural practice explores uncanniness in response to different geological and architectural sites, considering what may be hiding behind physical boundaries and surfaces. I look to create objects that are strange but familiar, threatening but passive.
‘Pathetic Overflow’ centres around objects that have invaded the building but that are also made from the building itself. Their materials are found within the very walls and floors they emerge from. Insulation, steel wool, silicone, and Polyfilla are typically used to repair and protect architectural boundaries, but here they corrupt these boundaries. With this, I aim to bring attention to the fragility of both our man-made buildings and the ideas they house: the fragility and flux of the art world itself. The white wall of the gallery is literally spilling with its innards; these innards are simultaneously destructive and productive, humorous and strange. They are reminiscent of cave forms: dripping, self-producing, and organic, but also show traces of their own artificial construction.
