Creating an almost non-activity, I want you to ask yourself - 'what is going on here?' - 'where is the focus?'. I'm enjoying making more with less, how a simply rolled sheet of coloured paper, held in place by masking tape, can perform the role of a beacon, a warning for current activity and a marker of territory. Through these cones a block of polystyrene is called to our attention but it offers nothing back, a material associated with the protection of our object in focus, the object of 'worth'. If we consider the white block a plinth of sorts then we are displayed a small hand constructed balsa structure. This has clearly had the most time invested in its making, does this establish it as our 'object of focus', a sort of time = worth concept. We must not forget though that the object itself is recognised as a tool ( a little too David Ersser maybe? ) and this tool is performing its job upon our block, by seemingly clamping two smaller blocks together surely projecting the focus back onto it.

Wimbledon MA Blog

Having just started my MA at Wimbledon I have decided to setup a blog for the course ( www.mawimbledon.blogspot.com ). This will act as a share space for students to post various things from up-coming exhibitions to films to on-going work. I am hopeful that it will be an active, fruitful resource and an exciting project.

Text accompanying the work:

I'm interested in the idea of ignition in sculpture, how by placing two objects together a dialogue is formed, thus activating the work. In what is initially a set of almost indistinguishable forms, with moments of reference to minimalist sculpture, certain characteristics become important, a colour, a material, a position in the room, etc. With a reliance on each other and a running dialogue between themselves and the space which houses them, these forms take on the roles of recognised objects we know to function together. In this case a sort of construction site emerges, an array of objects more associated with the setting up of an exhibition, than anything else. In these refined states the work becomes more like an idea of the objects, presented in physical form. This process is a shedding of previous roles and responsibilities, presenting objects with functions more concerned with issues of an architectural nature.

Exhibition view

ArtArtArt Magazine review

Really happy with Emily Morgan's review of our Bournemouth show for 'ArtArtArt' Magazine, which has been emailed out to nearly 10,000 subscribers.

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Edit Oderbolz

United Colors, 2001

There is something very architectural in this arrangement, the space feels full with what are really minor additions. There is also definite architectural roles the two work take on, almost informing us how to move around the space and where to give the majority of our attention.