Left to Right: Bronzer, Stayed at the Party Too Long, and Someone Needs a Hug, 2024, plywood and acrylic paint.

This was the first time I had tested out assembling on site because of the much larger scale. It meant that I could fit all the flat pieces in my car, bump them into the studio over several trips, then put them together.

Assemblage looked something like this ...

Stayed at the Party Too Long, 2024. plywood and acrylic paint.

It came together reasonably smoothly. Must make sure I remember for next time to make any slots a couple of mm bigger than they need to be to allow for the thickness of the paint. I had to shave a few bits off to get this big green guy together.

Artist's Statement

The objects in this series are investigations into ways that surfaces can hold space. Multiple planes, brought together by tension, negotiation, and cooperation, activate, and support one another by reaching an interim understanding. They are assembled using temporary connections of notches and tabs rather than glue and nails, so that they contain the potential to be undone and re-assembled. In this way they discourage the idea of being finished, instead being finished for now.

As entities held in a momentary state, they begin to draw parallels with our own temporary claims to a place in the world and the fragility of our inherited narratives. Like us, they hold and occupy space simultaneously. They consider our shifting relationships to place and the body in relation.

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Bronzer, 2024, plywood and acrylic paint.

Stayed At The Party Too Long, 2024, plywood and acrylic paint.

Someone Needs a Hug, 2024, plywood and acrylic paint.

Bronzer, 2024, plywood and acrylic paint.

Someone Needs a Hug, 2024, plywood and acrylic paint.